Love Quotes Quote by Maggie Stiefvater, Linger — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her.”

““Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.”

“Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.”

““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’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.”

“It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.”

“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...”

“I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.”

“I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.”