Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. ”

— Maggie Stiefvater

2. “Silence was never a wrong answer.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

3. “Scent is the strongest tie to memory.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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4. “Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.”

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5. “If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

6. “He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

7. “It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

8. “I’m so tired I never want to wake up again. But I’ve figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

9. “Dying’s a boring side effect.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

10. “I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren’t the same thing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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11. “She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.”

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12. “In the end, you have to write like you’re not afraid of the critics.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

13. “And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.”

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14. “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

15. “Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn’t really an apology, because you don’t bite someone’s earlobe to tell them you’re sorry.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

16. “They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

17. “My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

18. “Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

19. “She wasn’t interested in telling other people’s futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

20. “Rags to riches isn’t a story anyone wants to hear until after it’s done.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

21. “Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won’t settle for less.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

22. “Shhhhhh, shhhhhh, says the sea, but I don’t believe her.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

23. “I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

24. “Reality’s what other people dream for you.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

25. “What about us? Can i see you again? You can say no. You’d crush all my hopes and dreams, but it’s an option.”

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26. “He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places – striding. Walking was for ordinary people.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

27. “We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

28. “I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.”

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29. “No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It’s one of the human race’s most shining achievements. It’s called a conversation.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

30. “You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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31. “Avoidance is a wonderful therapy.”

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32. “I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

33. “Death smells like birthday cake.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

34. “The world needs more love at first sight.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

35. “There are moments that you’ll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you’ll remember for the rest of your life, and it’s not often they turn out to be the same moment.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

36. “People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

37. “The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

38. “I am so, so alive.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

39. “Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

40. “Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.”

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41. “People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper.”

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42. “The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.”

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43. “You’re beautiful and sad, just like your eyes.”

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44. “I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it’s also very dangerous.”

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45. “He hadn’t realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.”

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46. “Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

47. “Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn’t know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

48. “Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

49. “There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

50. “Ronan didn’t need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.”

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