I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.
Maggie StiefvaterDa.
-Cole st. Clair
Tags: forever linger wolves-of-mercy-falls
The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: contentment wanting
I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: honesty
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: happiness island-living
It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: seriousness answer surprise reply
My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar."
When Dad was in one of his rare, fanciful moods, he told guests that the pixies left me on the doorstep because I bit their fingers too often.
My favorite was always when Mum said that before I was born, it rained for seven days and seven nights solid, and when she went out into the yard to ask the sky what it was weeping for, I dropped out of the clouds at her feet and the sun came out. I always liked the idea of being such a bother that I affected even the weather.
Tags: puck troublemaker bothersome
I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: fear trust ocean dangerous
I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: arguing disappointing
It's only because I've lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he's not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there's nothing for it but to wait.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: thinking observation
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