Mister Impossible Quotes

“By the time we’re married,” Declan said eventually, “I want you to have applied for a different studio in this place because this man’s paintings are very ugly.”

Her pulse gently skipped two beats before continuing on as before. “I don’t have a social security number of my own, Pozzi.”

“I’ll buy you one,” Declan said. “You can wear it in place of a ring.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Self-hatred is an expensive hobby paid for by other people.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Was Adam injured, was he bored with Ronan, did he prefer the company of his urbane new friends, calm down, Ronan, stop being needy, Ronan, get yourself together, Ronan, you're always the car crash, Ronan.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Do we have to do this everyday? Just say you want a therapist for your birthday.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“It doesn't matter how you got here. You are here.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“I got access to some of the agencies’ documents,’ Adam said casually. This, Declan thought, was why those kids in the waffle line couldn’t truly be Adam’s bosom friends. Adam was reading intelligence documents about his boyfriend and they were googling celebrity chefs.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“It wasn't exactly that she wanted to die. She just didn't want to live with herself”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“The statement was meant for effect, and effect it got. Declan gave Matthew his most Declan of faces. He generally used one of two expressions. The first was Bland Businessman Nodding at What You’re Saying While Waiting for His Turn to Talk and the other was Reticent Father with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Realizes He Must Let His Child Use the Public Restroom First. They suited nearly every situation Declan found himself in. This, however, was a third expression: Exasperated Twentysomething Longs to Yell at His Brothers Because Oh My God. He rarely used it, but the lack of practice didn’t make it any less accomplished or any less pure Declan.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“He wanted it. It had been so long since he’d wanted something to happen, instead of wanting something to not happen. He’d forgotten what it felt like. It was equal parts great and terrible. It burned.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Mary, please strike me deaf until the state line,’ Declan said, checking his mirrors, changing lanes, driving safely. He felt Matthew was taking all this a bit far. Declan had put his identity crises on hold multiple times for the greater good. Matthew had only been asked to do it once.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Declan Lynch had a complicated relationship with his family. It wasn’t that he hated them. Hate was such a slick, neat, simple emotion. Declan envied people who felt proper hate. You had to sand all the corners off things in order to unequivocally hate; it was a subtractive emotion. Hate was sometimes a prize. But hate was sometimes also just a dick move. It was annoying how many people had small redeeming qualities or depressingly sympathetic motives or other complicating features that disqualified it as an appropriate response.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“A human child believes all things are possible. How wonderful. How terrifying. Slowly, you are taught what you cannot have. What will not be possible. What you do not have to fear. There is no monster in the closet. You cannot fly. How relieving. How disappointing. But this is the world, isn't it? You believe it. You believe it so thoroughly that even when the box is lifted from around you, you continue to travel in circles no bigger than its walls...”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“It's not going to make me feel worse," Ronan replied.

"If life's taught me anything," Hennessy said, "it's that you can always feel worse.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Humans dance as elegantly as clockwork stars move across the sky, but they don't see it because they are the stars.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Look like a man who takes his dates to cheesy tourist attractions. Be a man who steals paintings.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“You have to know what you want, or you’ll never get it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Adam seemed to only think about the future. He thought about what he wanted to happen days or weeks or years down the road, and then he backfilled actions to make it happen. He was good at depriving himself in the now in order to have something better in the later.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“The fairytales we tell ourselves are so comforting in times of darkness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“He always thought he was keeping his secrets by keeping his mouth shut, but he ended up telling them in other ways.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“A part of them must be relieved they no longer have front-row seats watching as the world breaks you. It’s hard to die. Harder to watch someone else do it, and make no mistake, that’s what you two were doing before now. Dying in plain sight, inch by inch, dream by dream, drip by drip. You’ve given them the gift of letting them look away, and I’m just warning you they might not like you returning that gift for store credit.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“It gave him the same vibe he used to get back at the Barns some nights, when he got trapped in one particular train of thought, where he imagined he and Adam had been together for a very long time and then Ronan died of old age or bad choices and Adam found someone else and later they all three were reunited in the afterlife, and rather than getting to spend the rest of eternity together, Adam had to split his time between Ronan and this stupid usurper he'd fallen in love with as a widower, which completely ruined the point of Heaven. And that was before Ronan even got to worrying if Adam made it to the afterlife at all, with his agnostic tendencies.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Get in, hurry up, time is a waterfall, and the moment we’re trying to catch is rapidly swimming toward the edge.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“It’s bonkers, really,” Jordan remarked. “The whole thing. A sweetmetal. Everyone’s going mad trying to get one, they’re so rare, it’s impossible. And here I am, thinking, oh, right, well, I’ll just make one, then. I never thought of myself as an egotist, but I really must have quite a pair on me.”

Declan smiled at this, turning his face away as he did, as always. “I’m just surprised you’ve never considered yourself an egotist.”

“That’s very sweet.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“To dream. To dream: urgently, purposefully. To dream with other dreamers.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Balls,” Ronan hissed, annoyed to have been startled.

“Tits,” added Hennessy.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“She was staying awake. She was staying awake long enough to become great.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Ah, there it was. It took no effort to remember the way he’d looked at her the first moment he realized she was a dream.

“I’m a dream,” Jordan said. “I’m not your dream.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Hennessy leaned over one of the shelves. The tediously normal-looking cell phone on it brightened to display a photograph of two young men as the lock screen. One was Ronan, laughing explosively. The other was a rather self-​contained-looking fellow, striking in an unusual sort of way, smirking a bit at whatever he’d just said. They were not exactly opposites but their appearances nonetheless gave the impression they were. Ronan’s dark, dramatic eyebrows, the other guy’s light, barely visible ones. Ronan’s emotions screamed upon his face while the other guy’s whispered.
“Is that him?”

Ronan addressed the dream at large. “Traitor. You didn’t have to show her.”

“He doesn’t look like he’s filling a hole inside himself with your toxic presence,” Hennessy said. She kind of hated looking at them together. It made her feel ugly inside. “Are you guys in love five-​ever or do you think you’re a pretty board game to pass his time?”

Now she sounded ugly, too.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“Nightmares are chemical," his boyfriend, Adam, had told him once. "Inappropriate adrenaline response to stimulus, possibly related to trauma."
"Talk dirty to me," Ronan had replied.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“The nonhuman world has patterns , too. Look at veins of a leaf, your hand, a tree, gold through rock, a river headed to sea, lightning. And again, again not just in the visible but also in the invisible. In the airflow, particles, sound waves, ley lines, too, veining across this poor, battered home of ours. Again, again, again. Everything predicts everything else. Everything affects everything else.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible