Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

103. “The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

104. “Hope hurt more than the cold.”

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105. “I’d found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

106. “It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn’t let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

107. “It’ll be OK. I’m ready. Blue, kiss me.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

108. “One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

109. “Folded in my arms you’re a butterfly in reverse you’re giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you’re letting go of me you’re letting go.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

110. “You needn’t tell a bird it’s a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It’s only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. – from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

111. “It’s easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don’t understand.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

112. “And when she’s fragile like this, she’s a little lost bird looking for ts nest. So i give her my wing to hide under.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

113. “I try to think of something catchy to say, but there’s nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

114. “This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one.”

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115. “I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. “Surprise attack,” I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. “Surprise attack back.” “Sneaky,” I said, my voice breathier than I intended.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

116. “No, thanks. I’m busy being an island of sanity in a sea of utter madness.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

117. “Noah Czerny had died. This was all that was left. That was the truth. Blue’s body was a riot of shivers. She had kissed this. This thin, cold memory of a human.”

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118. “I didn’t think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I’d do anything to stay with her.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

119. “I adore book-to-film adaptations when they’re done well, and I’m more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as ‘done well.’ For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

120. “One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye I shout it out so loud Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

121. “Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

122. “This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things. I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.”

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123. “Adam translated, “Not death, but his brother, sleep.”

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124. “In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.”

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125. “Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

126. “I was here. I exist. I’m alive, because I bleed.”

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127. “This is Adam Parrish,” Gansey said. “Shake his hand. He’s more clever than I am. One day we’ll be throwing one of these shindigs for him.”

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128. “And Gansey kind of wanted to live.”

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129. “Hello, Grace’s parents. I’m Grace’s boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter’s mouth.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

130. “I’m not asking him to stay, Ronan thought. Only to come back.”

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131. “Rex Corvus, parate Regis Corvi.”

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132. “I was so tired of being alone, but I was always alone, even when I was with people around me. And I was so tired of being surrounded, but I was always surrounded, even when I was by myself.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

133. “Books are more real when you read them outside.”

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134. “When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.”

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135. “It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”

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136. “A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder.”

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137. “I won’t let this be my good-bye. I’ve folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I’ve made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.”

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138. “What are you wishing for?? Grace interrupted. ‘To kiss you,’ I said to her.”

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139. “My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

140. “She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

141. “When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.”

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142. “Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn’t pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. – Cole St Clair, Forever.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

143. “I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

144. “Clutter is my natural habitat.”

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145. “I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.”

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146. “This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.”

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147. “And here was Ronan, like a heart attack that never stopped.”

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148. “Jane!” Gansey said joyfully.”

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149. “I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.”

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150. “And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me – nothing anywhere but Grace and me – she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.”

— Maggie Stiefvater