Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Once upon a time, this moment – this last light of the evening the day before the race – was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

102. “I wish you could be kissed, Jane,? he said. ‘Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.’ He flailed an arm toward the stars.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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104. “Blue tried not to look at Gansey’s boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn’t wearing them.”

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105. “Hope hurt more than the cold.”

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

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107. “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.”

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108. “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.”

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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.”

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110. “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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111. “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.”

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

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

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114. “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.”

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115. “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.”

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

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117. “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.”

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118. “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.”

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

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120. “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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121. “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.”

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

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123. “Rex Corvus, parate Regis Corvi.”

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124. “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.”

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

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126. “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.”

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

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129. “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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130. “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

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

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132. “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.”

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

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134. “Wow, you’re never allowed to sleep late again. You’re crankier than a fat guy in stilettos.”

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

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136. “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.”

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137. “There are three kinds of secrets. One is the sort everyone knows about, the sort you need at least two people for. One to keep it. One to never know. The second is a harder kind of secret: one you keep from yourself.”

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138. “In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.”

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

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141. “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.”

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

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143. “When you’re tired, sleep. Don’t watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you’ll be known for after you die.”

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144. “Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.”

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

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146. “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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147. “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.”

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148. “Clutter is my natural habitat.”

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149. “Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?”

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150. “Unguibus et rostro,” Adam said. Ronan put Adam’s fingers to his mouth. He was never sleeping again.”

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