Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races Quotes

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

I am so, so alive.

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.

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.

I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?