Noah Shaw Mara Dyer Quotes

This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know how our story will end. but I know it will start. I pick up my pen and begin to write:
My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. ~ Michelle Hodkin

If I were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one of them. ~ Michelle Hodkin

PLAY ME.
My gaze flicked to the hand. The fist was curled around a small tape recorder. I moved the fingers - still warm - and pressed play. A male voice started to speak.
"Do I have your attention?" the voice asked.
I knew that voice. But I couldn't believe I was hearing it.
"Noah's alive," Jude said. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Mara, I have never felt about anyone the way I feel about you. And when you're ready for me to show you," he said, brushing my hair to the side, "I'm going to kiss you." His thumb grazed my ear and his hand curved around my neck. He leaned me backward and my eyes fluttered closed. I breathed in the scent of him as he leaned in and kissed the hollow under my ear. My pulse raced under his lips.
"And I won't settle for anything less. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Mara takes my hand. "Noah Shaw, will you impregnate me immediately? ~ Michelle Hodkin

Mara : I'm too selfish to leave you
Noah Shaw : I'm too selfish to let you ~ Michelle Hodkin

Squawking pierced the funeral's hushed atmosphere as hundreds of black birds flew overhead in a rush of beating wings. They settled on a cluster of leafless trees that overlooked the parking lot. Even the trees were wearing black. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Jamie said in that voice of his, "You never saw us."
"I never saw you," the driver repeated, sounding dazed.
"You drove this astonishingly hot underwear model from south Texas. You wanted to lick his abs."
"I wanted to lick his abs."
"You're such an asshole," Stella muttered as she climbed out of the cab. ~ Michelle Hodkin

My brother cleared his throat. "I wish she knew that I think she is the most hilarious person on Earth. And that whenever she's not home, I feel like I'm missing my partner in crime."
My throat tightened. Do not cry. Do not cry.
"I wish she knew that she's really Mom's favorite
"
I shook my head here.
"
the princess she always wanted. That Mom used to dress her up like a little doll and parade her around like Mara was her greatest achievement. I wish Mara knew that I never minded, because she's my favorite too. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears.
'What did you do?' I said over the noise as he backed up towards the bathroom door.
'The girl who gave you the note?'
'Yes ... '
'I caught her staring at my lighter.'
I blinked. 'You gave a child, in a psych ward , a lighter?'
His eyes crinkled at the corners. 'She seemed trustworthy.'
'You're sick,' I said, but smiled.
'Hey, nobody's perfect. ' Noah smiled back. ~ Michelle Hodkin

He didn't look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah
sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah
cared. And that made him real. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I squinted one of my eyes at Daniel.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"This is me, giving you the side eye." I continued to squint.
"Well, you look like you're having a stroke ~ Hodkin Michelle

You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Fate is bullshit. Destiny doesn't exist. If I want a happy ending, I'll have to write it myself. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Have you made any other friends since we've been here?"
I gave him the death stare. "Yes, actually."
"Who? I want a name."
"Jamie Roth."
"The Ebola kid? I heard he's a little unstable."
"That was one incident. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I kind of want to see Mara Crucio their asses. ~ Michelle Hodkin

You don't have to pick me up," I said in a rush.
"Considering you have no idea where we're going and I have no intention of telling you, I'm quite sure that I do."
"I can meet you somewhere centrally located."
Noah sounded amused. "I promise to press my trousers before meeting your family. I'll even bring flowers for the occasion."
"Oh, God. Please don't." I said. Maybe honesty is the best policy. "My family is going to screw with my life if you come over." I knew them far too well.
"Congratulations
you just made the prospect all the more enticing. What is your address? ~ Michelle Hodkin

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look. ~ Michelle Hodkin

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares. ~ Michelle Hodkin

My name is not Mara Dyer. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I feel like I'm going to catch hepatitis just standing here. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Even if what he says is true, I am simply out of fucks to give. I had few to spare to begin with. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Pride goes before the fall. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I punched him nos so lightly in the arm. 'Asshole.'
He was silent for a few minutes, and then he smacked my arm.
'OW!'
'You had a mosquito.'
'No, I didn't. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Grounded likely means no phone or computer," Jamie said. "But if I encounter an owl, I'll try to smuggle a message to the outside, okay? ~ Michelle Hodkin

I stare at her above me and want her to pry me open, to crack my ribs, lick my heart, break my bones and suck out the marrow. I want to live inside of her. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others. ~ Michelle Hodkin

There's nothing I want. There's nothing I can't do. I don't care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An actor in my own life. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I'm rather sentimental about the ruins - as a child, I halfheartedly attempted suicide there now and again, always returning from post-tourist-hours expeditions with knees winking with cuts, and the occasional fracture or two. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Tonight. And I would give him tomorrow, and everyday after, for as long as I possibly could. It wasn't enough for me, but it was enough for him ~ Michelle Hodkin

I so badly needed to self-destruct. ~ Michelle Hodkin

The phone rang. Joseph darted to pick it up.
"Dyer residence," he answered formally.
"Hold please," he said as he covered the mouthpiece. He really was hilarious. "It's for you, Mara," he said. "And it's a booooy," he sing-songed.
I rolled my eyes but wondered who it could be. "I'm taking it in my room," I said as Joseph erupted in giggles. Horrible. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Also, I kissed her. She liked it.

Naturally. ~ Michelle Hodkin

I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself ... I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore ~ Michelle Hodkin

I'll love you to ruins. ~ Michelle Hodkin

My girl is talented, Noah said.
My heart stopped beating. ~ Michelle Hodkin

When you love someone, you're saying you trust them. You're handing them your heart and trusting them to protect it. To keep it safe. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Taste the Rainbow, bitch! ~ Michelle Hodkin

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, how could I ever love anyone else? ~ Michelle Hodkin

I looked up at the video camera and stared. Then raised my hand and gave it the middle finger.
"I thought you were going to give it the District Twelve salute," Jamie said. ~ Michelle Hodkin

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand. ~ Noah Baumbach

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all. ~ George Bernard Shaw

It was a long-held, multiheaded sensation formed from judgment, experience, and envy, and she didn't care for it. It wasn't that she necessarily thought that her negative opinions on raven boys were wrong. It was just that knowing Gansey, Adam, Ronan, and Noah complicated what she did with those opinions. It had been a lot more straightforward when she'd just assumed that she could despise them all from the thin air of the moral high ground. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

I don't pray because it makes sense to pray. I pray because my life doesn't make sense without prayer. ~ Noah Benshea