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Summary edit
In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past... and figuring out a way... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Grace Brisbane: One of two main characters of the book. Her love is Sam Roth. In the first book of the series, Shiver, she looked for a way to stop him from undergoing his last change into a wolf. She was bitten by the wolf pack when she was 11 and Sam was 12 however due to being locked in a car during a hot day her transformation into a wolf was halted and she remained human. However Grace does have the senses of sound and smell like that of a wolf and slight healing capabilities, though nowhere to the extent of Sam.
- Samuel Kerr Roth: Grace's love. He was a werewolf and was almost taken by winter and stuck in that form forever never turning back to human.
- Isabel Rosemary Culpeper: She is kind of bratty and is very smart when it comes to health. She skips school a lot but is still very smart. She is Jack's sister
- Geoffrey Beck: Beck has raised Sam since his childhood after choosing to turn him into a werewolf. Beck takes care of things for the pack and goes out of his way to make sure things stay the same.
- Paul: The current alpha male of the wolf pack, get talked about, but isn't actually seen in Linger.
- Olivia Marx: One of Grace's best friends, she is a photographer, in the first book she was bitten by Jack and became a werewolf as well, however she welcomed the change and readily went with the other wolves. She does not physically feature in Linger.
- Shelby: A werewolf who has always had a sick and twisted version of life. She is ecstatic for the time when she fully becomes a wolf, and has an obsessive crush on Sam. She has a natural dislike for Grace, and also is the loner of Beck's family.
- Jack Culpeper: He is Isabel's brother. He unfortunately dies due to trying to cure a wolf bite. Mentioned in Linger but not in it.
- Rachel Vega: Graces other best friend. Very outgoing, hyper and clueless about werewolves. Covers up for Grace when she gets in trouble.
- Tom Culpeper: Jack and Isabel's father. Hates wolves after a wolf supposedly killed Jack.
- Victor Baranova: Cole's friend and band member. A new werewolf.
- Karyn: Sam's boss at the bookstore where he works. Sam likes her because she is a simple lady with an iron core.
- Ulrik: One of the older wolves in the pack. Beck and Sam's best friend. He is German and taught Sam some. It is thanks to Ulrik that Sam loves Rilke.
- Angie Baranova: Cole's ex-girlfriend and Victor's sister. Has a grudge on Cole forever.
- Lewis Brisbane: Grace's father. He is an very inattentive father who hates Sam, and probably will for the rest of his life. The first time he tries to be a father drives Grace away to be with Sam.
Quotes edit
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“When I say panini here, everyone says bless you.”
Isabel -
“Their eyes, human eyes in wolf skulls, remind me of water: the clear blue of water reflecting the spring sky, the brown of a brook churning with rainfall, the green of the lake in summer as the algae begins to bloom, the gray of a snow-chocked river. It used to be only Sam's yellow eyes that watched me from between the rain-soaked birches, but now I feel the weight of the entire pack's gaze. The weight of things known, things unsaid.--From the back of Linger”
Grace -
“Mercy Falls, Minnesota, looked different when you knew you'd be human for the rest of your life.”
Sam -
“I have had no thought other than this: Stay alive.”
Cole -
“I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd sung. I couldn't remember the last time I'd missed it.”
Cole -
“This was not real life. This was life as watched through a window. Life watched on television.”
Sam -
“The future stretched before me, infinite and growing and mine, in a way that nothing had ever been before.”
Sam -
“I could still remember his human eyes in that wolf face; they'd looked as empty as I felt.”
Isabel -
“My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.”
Sam -
“It was something that said she knew me. Something that made the I love yous real.”
Sam -
“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out.”
Cole -
“She screamed, this high pitched scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.”
Cole -
“Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.”
Sam -
“I was poison to everyone I touched, but for once, it felt good to be self aware. I couldn't stop myself from exploding, but I could at least learn to contain the fallout.”
Cole -
“The longest day of my life began and ended with Grace closing her eyes.”
Sam -
“"We're getting free toppings. Bet me we're getting free toppings" "I don't have to bet, that was practically phone sex on an extra-thin crust."”
Isabel and Grace -
“Tom Culpeper was a prick. Being one myself, I was allowed to think such things.”
Cole -
“Most people had an acquired kind of beauty - they became better-looking the longer you knew them and the better you loved them.”
Sam -
“I am standing here in the shed and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out of the dirt. I don't know if it is too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.”
Sam -
“I was an open wound.”
Sam -
“I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but n my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.”
Sam -
“"I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his." (p.224)”
Grace -
“"Right now...it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world."”
Sam -
“"Sam? Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?". (page 148)”
Rachel -
“This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.”
Grace Brisbane -
“We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.”
Rilke -
“Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to the aliens?”
Geoffrey Beck -
“"Don't..don't even say that. Don't threaten me with that. I'll go. But don't.."”
Sam -
“"I thought about telling her what i was thinking, like you're beautiful and you're my angel, but the thing about Grace was that words like that meant more to me than to her. They were throw away phrases to her, things that made her smile for a second but were just...gone after that, too corny to be real. To Grace these were the things that mattered: My hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth, the fleeting touches that meant I love her."”
Sam -
“"I could just walk away. She was dying, after all. It was inevitable and how much did the suffering of a deer count for? Her eye blinked again, silent and tolerant. A lot..that was how much it counted for."”
Cole -
“I never knew there were so many kinds of love; or that love could make people so many kinds of things.”
Grace
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Folded in my arms you’re a butterfly in reverse giving up your wings inheriting my curse you’re letting go of me you’re letting go
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“Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?”
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I’m an equation that only she solves / these Xs and Ys by other names called / My way of dividing is desperately flawed / as I multiply days without her.
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“Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben”—“We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.”
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Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed
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All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below.
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“Ah, to whom can we fall apart? Not to angels, nor men, and even the most clever of animals see that we are not surely at home in our interpreted world,”
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Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us
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Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i ‘m still waking up but she’s still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead
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“Oh and night, the night, when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces.”
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Setting & Locations edit
Mercy Falls, Minnesota, the epi-center of the Shiver Trilogy, is the third character. The weather and personality of the place is just as important to the Shiver as Sam and Grace's love. Mercy Falls is an imaginary town (well, it's as real as Sam and Grace). In my head, it is located at the edge of the Boundary Waters, near the real town of Ely, Minnesota. Just south of the Canadian border, Mercy Falls, like Ely, is cold—with an average high temperature that never breaks 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
- The Woods: Where the wolves live most of the year
- The Brisbane Home: Grace and her parents live here.
- The Wolf Pack's Human House - Beck's House: Where the wolves live when they are in their human bodies.
- The Culpeper Home: where Isabel and her parents live
- Duluth: nearest major city to Mercy Falls, where Sam is from.
- Toronto: Where Beck recruits Cole and Victor
- Minnesota
- Hospital
First Sentence edit
This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf and a girl who was becoming one.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
Chapters 1 - 54
Acknowledgments
Glossary edit
- Immer Wieder: Always the same. German quote.
Themes & Symbolism edit
- Paper cranes: Sam constantly makes new paper cranes to hang from the ceiling of his bedroom. Each one represents a memory in his life that he never wants to forget.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 3 in Wolves of Mercy Falls. (standard series)
Preceded by Shiver, and followed by Forever .
This is book 62 of 121 in Znanje - Knjiga dostupna svima. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Maggie Stiefvater (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Yuta Onoda (Cover Artist)
- Christopher Stengel (Designer)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: July 13, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-545-12328-0
Page Count: 362
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: July 13, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-545-12328-0
Page Count: 362
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ7.S855625 Lin 2010
- Dewey: 813.54
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsRecommended for age +14. Some sexual content implied.
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- http://www.maggiestiefvater.com/: Authors website
- http://www.maggiestiefvater.com/shiver/: Wolves of Mercy Falls series website
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