#s

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

#sam-roth #sam

Sam picks the stone up and clenches his entire body in deep concentration. Nothing happens. " Oh come on," he says to the stone. " I promise to use it for the power of good. No girls' locker rooms, I swear. ↗

— Pittacus Lore

#sam

You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #wolves #sam

I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #sam

I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#sam #sam

Sam: “I—it’s—I’m not an animal. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#sam-roth #werewolf #sam

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#sanity #society #sanity

Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#transformation

Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They’re my favorite.' I looked Hades in the eyes. 'Give me the red M&Ms.' 'Still not good enough.' 'Give me the damn M&Ms,"'I snapped. He snickered. 'That wasn’t very charming. ↗

— Kaitlin Bevis

#hades #m-ms #mythology #persephone #mythology