"I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face."

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Maggie Stiefvater

#Rain Quotes #Faces Quotes #Scent Quotes

“In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.”
“Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.”
“Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list of useful skills she needed to acquire along with hand-to-hand combat and the recipe for pesto. If her life were to continue on its present track which after 26 years of obscurity, now seemed to mainly involve people trying to kill her, it would appear that acquiring a less savory skill set might be necessary. Although she supposed pesto making ought to be termed 'more savory'.”
“I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.”
“You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.”
“I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.”

Source : Interview With Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.
“I'm a miracle man, things happen which I don't plan, I've never planned anything. Whatsoever I do, I want it to be an instant action object, instant reaction subject. Instant input, instant output.”

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