Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

(for memory and clairvoyance, which are the same thing in two different directions). — Maggie Stiefvater

Everyone's face is a mirror, Dick - endeavor to make them reflect a smile. — Maggie Stiefvater

I wanted Isabel, but she was such an impossible thing to want. — Maggie Stiefvater

He was the sort of boy who didn't necessarily believe everything, but wanted to. — Maggie Stiefvater

Terror owned Adam. The old terror, the one that was just as much confusion and betrayal as fear itself. — Maggie Stiefvater

But love isn't quantifiable on paper. — Maggie Stiefvater

The breeze through the open window scented the interior of the car with leaves and water, growing things and secret things. — Maggie Stiefvater

Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die. — Maggie Stiefvater

Part of me wanted him to be awake, but the other part of me liked this quiet feeling of being both alone and not lonely. — Maggie Stiefvater

Wait!' called Blue. 'Will you tell me about my father?"
"No," Gwenllian replied. "I will get mayonnaise. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let's-Save-Erdas. — Maggie Stiefvater

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin. — Maggie Stiefvater

Death smells like birthday cake. — Maggie Stiefvater

His thoughtless expression was one of wonder or of pain; with Gansey, they were so often the same thing. — Maggie Stiefvater

Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt — Maggie Stiefvater

Wick to be certain it was entirely extinguished. Energy like your energy. — Maggie Stiefvater

It felt as if there were a larger, terribly curious Blue inside her that was about to bust out of the smaller, more sensible Blue that held her. — Maggie Stiefvater

Beside her, Adam was once again retreating inside himself, most interested, as always, in the thing that remained unknowable to him: his own mind. — Maggie Stiefvater

When I say panni here, everyone says Bless you. — Maggie Stiefvater

I don't think I've ever seen someone take so much pleasure in making someone else miserable. . . it's an ugly sore. — Maggie Stiefvater

Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn't dream — Maggie Stiefvater

We're watchers of this world aren't we? not players — Maggie Stiefvater

Eleven minutes. That was how long the entire homicidal portrait lasted: one boy's life destroyed in less time than it took to cook a hamburger. — Maggie Stiefvater

Blue draped an arm over his cold neck. There wasn't really anything to say to make being dead better. — Maggie Stiefvater

Nothing comes from nothing. But something makes something. — Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan sometimes dreamt of Adam, too, the latter boy sullen and elegant and fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan's clumsy attempts to communicate. — Maggie Stiefvater

You guys have a death list?" Ronan broke in. "That is fucking dark. Am I on it?" "Some days, I wish," Blue said. — Maggie Stiefvater

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now. — Maggie Stiefvater

Past performance really did seem to be the best indicator of future performance. — Maggie Stiefvater

You're here. So how can I leave? — Maggie Stiefvater

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism. — Maggie Stiefvater

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human. — Maggie Stiefvater

Don't fucking swear," Ronan said. — Maggie Stiefvater

Many thieves. One Greywaren. — Maggie Stiefvater

I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe. — Maggie Stiefvater

There are fates worse than death. — Maggie Stiefvater

Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on. — Maggie Stiefvater

Scent is the strongest tie to memory. — Maggie Stiefvater

We are going so slow," Noah said, craning his neck to observe the inevitable queue behind them. "I think I just saw a tricycle pass us. — Maggie Stiefvater

I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for. — Maggie Stiefvater

You're being creepy," Blue said. "Maybe you mean to be, but in case you're just being accidentally creepy, I thought I'd let you know. — Maggie Stiefvater

If you can't be unafraid, be afraid and happy. — Maggie Stiefvater

I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams. — Maggie Stiefvater

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater

How long do you have to be in a place before it's your home? — Maggie Stiefvater

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me. — Maggie Stiefvater

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over — Maggie Stiefvater

One day soon there would be hell to pay for these stolen moments together, but I didn't think we were wrong to have them. — Maggie Stiefvater

Nothing worth doing — Maggie Stiefvater

I deal with the crap as it happens, and then it's gone. When you don't think about it, it lives forever. — Maggie Stiefvater

Behind him, he heard Ronan say, I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck off. — Maggie Stiefvater

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready. — Maggie Stiefvater

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam. — Maggie Stiefvater

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. — Maggie Stiefvater

They were young and loud and triumphant, and the Kings of Henrietta. — Maggie Stiefvater

It was easier to tell hero from villain when the stakes were only life and death. Everything in between gets harder. — Maggie Stiefvater

In and out' Ronan repeated. It didn't sound like a dream he'd ever had.
'Like a motherfucking thief. — Maggie Stiefvater

The victim lay on his face, as most people did after being stuck with ten swords. — Maggie Stiefvater

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. — Maggie Stiefvater

That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical. — Maggie Stiefvater

Silly boy, you self-destroyer! — Maggie Stiefvater

What God has made, let not Fey eviscerate, Aodhan noted. — Maggie Stiefvater

You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not. — Maggie Stiefvater

The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. — Maggie Stiefvater

P.P.P.P.S. Don't wake the third sleeper. — Maggie Stiefvater

Come again? I know, I know - that's what Lynch says. — Maggie Stiefvater

Please just tell me where you are.
His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain. — Maggie Stiefvater

Hello, lovely. You're as pretty as pretty today. — Maggie Stiefvater

[ ... ] Aglionby boys, who often thought rudeness was a louder sort of flirting. — Maggie Stiefvater

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts. — Maggie Stiefvater

The buck stops here," Ronan said, pulling up the hand brake. "Home shit home. — Maggie Stiefvater

And i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away — Maggie Stiefvater

Clutter is my natural habitat. — Maggie Stiefvater

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood. — Maggie Stiefvater

How did you find me?"
"You were lying in the grass a metre away from me. It wasn't rocket science. — Maggie Stiefvater

The soul is vulnerable when it's outside the mind. — Maggie Stiefvater

Remember it's me. Please — Maggie Stiefvater

We chose Fox Way. We made it, Calla and Persephone and I. But it's only your origin story, not your final destination. — Maggie Stiefvater

(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it. — Maggie Stiefvater

The Ganseys were courtiers and kings, and when there was no castle to invite them, they built one. — Maggie Stiefvater

The choice was death or hurting Adam, which wasn't much of a choice at all. — Maggie Stiefvater

Somehow taking a shower with her in the room was more intimate than sex. — Maggie Stiefvater

They regarded each other. Adam fair and cautious, Ronan dark and incendiary. This was Ronan at his most truthful. — Maggie Stiefvater

There's no point vilifying wild animals for a random incident. — Maggie Stiefvater

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless. — Maggie Stiefvater

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to. — Maggie Stiefvater

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality. — Maggie Stiefvater

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid. — Maggie Stiefvater

I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal? — Maggie Stiefvater

A frightening menagerie, my emotions are
Too many and varied to number
Like creatures they crawl and they fly above
Tearing my body asunder. — Maggie Stiefvater

From the sea, to the sea. — Maggie Stiefvater

Maybe, if she was standing before that sleeping king, she'd ask the king to save Gansey's life. — Maggie Stiefvater

everytime i saw him it was like another jolt — Maggie Stiefvater

It's ever surprising, the things that don't change. — Maggie Stiefvater

Was Ronan even human? Half a dreamer, half a dream, maker of ravens and hoofed girls and entire lands. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm getting creeped out. This it totally starting to sound like a horror flick, and everybody knows the hot chick dies first. Let's get out of here. — Maggie Stiefvater

It's a bomb. Just like you. — Maggie Stiefvater

Her eyes on my eyes. I was tearing apart, inside and outside.
Her life.
My life. — Maggie Stiefvater

At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands. — Maggie Stiefvater

He had not known to be born afraid, but he'd learned. — Maggie Stiefvater