Jaime

“At a certain point, the truth felt worse. Truth was a closed-casket funeral attended by its estranged living relatives, Lies, Safety, and Secrets.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“It felt like sadness was like radiation, like the amount of time between exposures was irrelevant, like you got a badge that eventually got filled up from a lifetime of it, and then it just killed you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Funny, Ronan thought, how sad an empty house felt and how preferable an empty landscape was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“But joy is a small, tenacious crop, especially in soil that hasn't grown any for a long time.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk