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1 " Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world. "
― Maggie Stiefvater , Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)
2 " What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her. "
3 " He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years. "
4 " Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper "
5 " When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses. "
6 " I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division is desperatley flawed, while I multiply days without her. "
7 " Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure. "
8 " You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line. "
9 " There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. "
10 " Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream "
11 " So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love.So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness is growing palpable in this tiny town and I will NOT bury Grace's body--and I am a boy waiting--for the heat and the fruitfulness of summer, waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl. "
12 " I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it. "
13 " So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality. "
14 " ...she made her home in between the pages of books. "
15 " This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye. "
16 " I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye "
17 " I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human. "
18 " Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me. "
19 " I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed.I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more. "
20 " Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it "
