Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

452. “Boudicca is the original goth. Ronan Lynch wishes he was that badass.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

453. “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

454. “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

455. “I don’t cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

457. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

460. “Opal was glad to see he was slowly turning his ship toward the shore of solutions.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

461. “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

462. “Back home at Bicho Raro, they sometimes called her la chica sin sentimientos. Beatriz did not mind being called a girl without feelings. The statement seemed true enough to her.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

465. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

467. “Ronan Lynch loved to dream about light.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

468. “Love in the high desert is a strange thing. There is something about the climate – the remoteness, the severity of the seasons, the dryness of the air, the extreme beauty – that makes people feel more deeply. Perhaps without trees or cities to dampen the enormity of the feelings, they spread out hugely. Perhaps the hard-packed dust of the San Luis Valley amplifies them, like a shout into a canyon.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

471. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

474. “I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they’re ready.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

480. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

482. “I’ll cook the water...”

— Maggie Stiefvater

483. “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

484. “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

485. “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

486. “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

487. “I can’t kill his demons.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

490. “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

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

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492. “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

493. “Hello, lovely. You’re as pretty as pretty today.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

494. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

496. “I didn’t know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i’d forgotten. Sort of like a splinter – not when you first get it under your skin, but the slow ache after it has been taken out.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

497. “Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn’t matter.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

498. “This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.”

— 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. “My hand aching because grace wasn’t underneath it 3!”

— Maggie Stiefvater