Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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

452. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

455. “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

456. “Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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458. “Here is what I have learned,′ Henry said. ‘If you cannot be unafraid... be afraid and happy... Think about what you are afraid of... Does it have to be something that kills you? No. It is just a little thing. It could be anything. It could be something beautiful instead.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

460. “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.”

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461. “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

462. “I always listen to you. Except when I don’t.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

469. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

471. “I’ll cook the water...”

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472. “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

473. “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

474. “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

475. “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

476. “I can’t kill his demons.”

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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479. “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

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

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481. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

483. “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

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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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487. “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.”

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

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489. “Hours took as long as they needed.”

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490. “The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her shoulders, sorry that loving me was such a complicated thing.”

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491. “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

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

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

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494. “Maura had decided sometime before Blue’s birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.”

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495. “He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn’t understand.”

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496. “I’m not done writing songs about you yet.”

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497. “I sense that his drowning but I don’t have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.”

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498. “I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I’m telling the wrong story.”

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499. “Sean looks at me then, his eyes bright, in a way that makes me feel out of sorts. I glare back.”

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500. “His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.”

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