Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn’t want her to learn any bad language.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

452. “Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

453. “I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she’d just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

454. “He was a king. This was the year he was going to die.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

455. “The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains. – Cole.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

456. “My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

457. “Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I’d just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

458. “When you traffic in monsters, that’s the risk you run, that you’ll find one too monstrous to stomach.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

459. “Gansey said, around his straw. “Why is the tea so good here?” “I spit in it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

460. “I loved you so much right then Sam Roth.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

461. “Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

462. “It’s a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn’t realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would’ve given a better reply when he asked me.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

463. “I’m not a creeper. I’m just a guy looking for a king.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

464. “This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you’re lonely.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

465. “That was pretty much all you needed to know about Cole, right there. He saw something he didn’t quite understand, liked it, and took it to be his.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

466. “She leaned toward me, offering her neck, and I kissed her just behind her ear.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

467. “All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

468. “I’ll cook the water...”

— Maggie Stiefvater

469. “There was nothing inherently guilty about the moment except that Gansey burned with guilt and thrill and desire and the nebulous feeling of being truly known. It was on the inside of him, and the inside was all Noah ever really paid attention to.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

470. “I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. “For crying out loud,” he said. “It’s a racoon.” “Poor thing,” I said. “It could be a rabid baby-killer,” Cole told me primly. “Shut up,” Sam said pleasantly.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

471. “If she and Sam ever had kids, they’d be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

472. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

473. “She breathed. “This is lovely.” It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

474. “He always said Ronan differently from other words. As if he had meant to say another word entirely – something like knife or poison or revenge – and then swapped it out for Ronan’s name at the last moment.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

475. “He didn’t know if he was more furious with his brother, for knowing precisely how to loop the wire around his neck, or with himself, for his inability to duck out of the noose.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

476. “So many pearls to be had, if you were in the mood to open oysters.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

477. “I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

478. “I felt like I was watching the transfomation of two people: Victor to wolf, and Cole to someone else. I was the only one here, staying the same.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

479. “It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you’d relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

480. “Parrish wants to know if you killed yourself dreaming just now please advise.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

481. “A small percentage of medieval bodies were buried such; historians thought they were the graves of suicides or witches, though really, historians were such Guesser McGuessers, him the biggest of them all.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

482. “Here was a thing Francisco wanted: to find a pitch-black bud on one of his roses. Here was a thing he feared: being asked to do anything else.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

483. “The fact was, I didn’t know if I was built for happy endings.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

484. “I’m sorry your father never taught you the meaning of the word repugnant. He was too busy smashing your head against the wall of your trailer while you apologized for being alive.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

485. “If you can’t be unafraid, Henry said, be afraid and happy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

486. “I’m so full of an unnamed wanting that I can’t bear it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

487. “I’s tell you to go to hell but i don’t want to see you again.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

488. “Helen was beautiful in the way a supercomputer was beautiful: sleek with elegant but utilitarian styling, full of top-notch technological know-how, far too expensive for most people to possess.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

489. “He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

490. “I’m quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

491. “The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

492. “Gansey touched his lower lip very gently. He lowered his hand, and he said, “Wake up.” He said it like he had said stop earlier. He said it in a voice Adam had heard countless times, a voice he could never not listen to.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

493. “I’m pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

494. “How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

495. “Era come il sole sulle palpebre e il profumo del mare in bocca quando succhi l’aria tra i denti.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

496. “You will be one of those gods without magic powers. What are they called? “I don’t think there is a word.” King. Probably. I.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

497. “On the night this story begins, both a saint and a scientist were listening to miracles.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

498. “I can’t kill his demons.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

499. “Everyone thinks their world is the only one. A flea believes a dog is the world. A dog believes the kennel is the world. The huntsman thinks his country is the world. The king believes the globe is the world. The farther out you get, the wider you get, the higher you get, the more you see you have misunderstood the bounds of what is possible. Of what is right and wrong. Of what you can truly do. Perspective, Ronan Lynch.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

500. “We’ll run out of island before he runs out of speed.”

— Maggie Stiefvater