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Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse
you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse
you're letting go of
me
you're letting go


Maggie Stiefvater

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Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magi...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my leg...
CASEY RENEE KISER Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
CHAUCER Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL Found myself kneeling in Your presence
Seeking Your wisdom and embrace
Letting go all the ...
ANGELICA DAVID MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
CHLOE NEILL Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You
know, when the world suddenl...
KAREN MARIE MONING This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, ar...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo...
ELLEN WRIGHT Jesus, take the wheel
Take it from my hands
'Cause I can't do this on my own
I'm lett...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Do not go to my grave.
Mary knows, I am not there.
Look for me in between pages
an...
KAMAND KOJOURI We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ...
HECTOR GARCIA I’m here now.
Letting them out.
Freeing my words
Building better walls.
TAMARA IRELAND STONE I spread my fingers outward,
letting the knife tip of my
middle finger rip the sky as A.P. SWEET Was it hard?" I ask.
Letting go?"

Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't...
LISA SCHROEDER Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And witho...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Dad, youre so far off the mark I can't even...Lincoln hasn't pressured me at all!" I grabbed my bag ...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Xav!
Got you. Not letting you go.
I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space; he had a...
JOSS STIRLING His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?'
'Pride? It's in my heart, of c...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Autumn.

The grace in letting dead things fall.
DARNELL LAMONT WALKERMONT WALKER Autumn.

The grace in letting dead things fall.
DARNELL LAMONT WALKER I winked and locked my arm in Carter's, and we stood there, watching Dean stroll away.

"Y...
RACHAEL WADE I will speak of love
until you go mad
and join me
in my mad worship
of love.
KAMAND KOJOURI His eyes shone playfully, turning his irises a deep cocoa. "That's why I like you, you're a challeng...
KARINA HALLE I’m quietly sipping my coffee,
sitting on the deck,
settled in to my little jungle of he...
ANNA ASCHE This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -...
EMILY DICKINSON LET’S GO BACK HOME

I can't think about you,
Without smiling.
What I wouldn’...
GIORGE LEEDY ROCK STATE OF MIND

The lights go out
Darkness takes over my mind
I can see only...
EVY MICHAELS When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there's nothing I'd be saved by
EDWIN MORGAN I'd keep your beauty timeless.
like a flower pressed in a book, yes
I wouldn't let it fad...
RICHARD L. RATLIFF Oh thank God, please you have to help me!” begged the human. “She tied me up, she wants to kill ...
SUZANNE WRIGHT Come, butterfly
It's late-
We've miles to go together.
BASHō MATSUO Light

That's how I feel-
like the winter-fringed
breeze might scoop
me up ...
ELLEN HOPKINS When twilight sleeps holding the night
In your arms you embrace me tight
Runaway hours cle...
MUNIA KHAN Gather my leaves,
Twist them into crowns
Let me be the king of your forest
Climb on m...
MICHELLE HODKIN I’m not letting you go, Fiona,” he murmured before brushing his lips over hers. She tasted like ...
KATIE REUS And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out o...
DR. SEUSS I keep my kindness in my eyes
Gently folded around my iris
Like a velvety, brown blanket...
SANOBER KHAN My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA Soothing the exhaustion
In my soul,
So I can fall back skyward,
Safe in your arms, SCOTT HASTIE TREE HOUSE
A tree house, a free house,
A secret you and me house,
A high up in the le...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not ...
SHEILA BURKE It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not ...
SHEILA M. BURKE …I went away from your side,
in love without knowing it.
Now I don’t know how your eye...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn...
BOB GREEN His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed.
He's letting me go.
I think I've made m...
JAY ASHER STAINS
With red clay between my toes,
and the sun setting over my head,
the ghost of ...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and fo...
SHARON OLDS Butterfly Kisses

Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
MUSE You are the light in my darkness,
Restful peace for my soul.
You are the one who rescues m...
LILY G BLUNT Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I would not have a god come in
To shield me suddenly from sin,
And set my house of life ...
SARA TEASDALE Sonnet LXXXI

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain ...
PABLO NERUDA I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's no...
RAE EARL You are my butterfly,
and I am your flower.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA the lost women

I need to know their names
those women I would have walked with,
LUCILLE CLIFTON Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
No amount of money,
Can stop me from loving you,
CHRIS COLFER I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you l...
KAMAND KOJOURI Give me love like her
'Cause lately I've been waking up alone
Paint splattered teardrops o...
ED SHEERAN Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter...
PABLO NERUDA Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size<...
MAYA ANGELOU Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With ...
ALISON CROGGON I am a caged bird,
rattling the bars of my cage,
with furious flutterings,
break my c...
STEVEN JAMES Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size<...
MAYA ANGELOU You are going, Jane?"

"I am going, sir."

"You are leaving me?"

"Yes...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother’s arms.
SANOBER KHAN —I don't want to lose you
—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Dad pressed against my mind. Please, Allison. Let me, just this once, hold my son.
I shouldn't...
DEVON MONK Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
SYLVIA PLATH In the stillness of headstones,
Darkness is my blanket.
And forever is my song.
In th...
JORDAN DANE The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I...
THEODORE ROETHKE I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her ...
CLAIRE MERLE Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.

'Thank you for wearing that dress whi...
JOHN GREEN He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Everywhere I go,
your beauty spills
into my day.
The trees were
never this v...
KAMAND KOJOURI For it is up to you and me
to take solace
in nostalgia's arms

and our ability SANOBER KHAN When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Butterfly.
What a beautiful word
What a delicate creature.
Delicate like the cruel wo...
COLLEEN HOOVER Wisdom

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things...
SARA TEASDALE You remind me of a boy I used to know
Same Smile, same easy, laid-back style
And man, coul...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes.
Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ...
JOSé N. HARRIS I open my eyes.
I want to know:
what is in the abyss of a kiss?
Are stars born in t...
KAMAND KOJOURI Breaking the circle”

My eyes darken when I see my new lover. Fresh prey.
My body d...
ASPER BLURRY Exactly when will you give up?

When things will seem out of your hands ?

When ...
SANHITA BARUAH In My Daughter's Eyes Lyrics
In my daughter's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I ...
MARTINA MCBRIDE I'm done peeing now."
"Thank you for letting me know.
JESSICA PARK Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings
ANNE SEXTON The Children's Hour

Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I Like For You To Be Still

I like for you to be still
It is as though you are...
PABLO NERUDA THE NAKED HEART

From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
Poor or...
SUZY KASSEM Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER

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anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
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Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Danger...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

MAGGIE STIEFVATER Hope hurt more than the cold.
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Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
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Their magic. Their quest. Their awf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go awa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I’m going in,” Gansey said as Ronan sat down on the step beside Adam. As Gansey shut the door be...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?"
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."

"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER