Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

52. “I’ve always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

53. “I wasn’t sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I wasn’t hot enough for him to charge the mattress like a bull.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

54. “A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn’t there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

55. “I’m fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

56. “To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

57. “Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

58. “It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

59. “People don’t change who they are. They only change what they do with it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

60. “I think it’s crazy how you’re in love with all those raven boys.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

61. “What a shame that both miracles and radio waves are invisible, because ti would be quite a sight: ribbons of marvel and sound stretching out straight and true from all over the world.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

62. “This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest of her.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

63. “It was as if I had thought all along I was a complete picture and he had revealed I was a puzzle and had taken me apart and put me back together again.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

64. “Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

65. “It’s a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

66. “He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I’m sorry it wasn’t puppies.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

67. “I’m just warning you,” Neeve said. “Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

68. “Mornings like this one were made for memories.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

69. “Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

70. “Sitting in the empty classroom and listening to the faraway sounds of noisy students in the cafeteria, I was reminded of feeling sick in class and being sent to the school nurse. The nurse’s office had that same muffled sense of distance, like a satellite to the loud planet that was the school.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

71. “You are made of dreams and this world is not for you.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

72. “In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

73. “She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

74. “I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

75. “And then I did laugh, even though the future was a dangerous place, because I loved her, and she loved me, and the world was beautiful.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

76. “You can’t force someone to love you-don’t you get it? You can force them to kill for you. You can force them to be your subjects. You can’t make someone love you!”

— Maggie Stiefvater

77. “Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

78. “I’m not looking for self-control.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

79. “Can I ask you a question? Ya just did. Can I ask you 2 questions then? Ya just did. Ohh, so you’re a smart ass.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

80. “It’s rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don’t know you’re doing it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

81. “Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan’s worship into one downtown block.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

82. “It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

83. “Clear your mind of whimsy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

84. “There’s no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There’s a book that matters to a reader.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

85. “Depending on where you began the story, it was about Noah Czerny.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

86. “Does any part of you still look at the sky and hurt?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

87. “I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

88. “Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

89. “What a strange constellation they all were.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

90. “Ronan’s second secret was Adam Parrish. Adam was different since making the bargain with Cabeswater. Stronger, Stranger, farther away. It was hard not to stare at the odd elegant lines of his face.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

91. “You’re asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me,” Gansey said. “Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don’t want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don’t want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

92. “Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

93. “I don’t trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn’t mean I’m afraid of it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

94. “Is it safe?” Gansey asked. “Safe as life,” Adam replied.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

95. “His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

96. “Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i’m still waking up but she’s still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

97. “When the end comes, dark and hungry I’ll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I’ll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

98. “If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

99. “The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

100. “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