Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I didn’t want normal until I didn’t have it anymore.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

153. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

154. “Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

155. “There was no other sound in the world like a car crash.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

157. “It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish’s nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

158. “Trees in your eyes... Stars in your heart.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

160. “It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

161. “He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

162. “His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

163. “I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

165. “Depending on where you began the story, it was about this place: the long stretch of mountain that straddled a particularly potent segment of the ley line.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

166. “The choice was death or hurting Adam, which wasn’t much of a choice at all.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

167. “Boys like him didn’t die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

168. “I want it too much,” Adam said. That sentence, Ronan thought, was enough to undo all bad feeling he might have had meeting Adam’s Harvard friends, all bad feeling about looking like a loser, all bad feeling about feeling stuck, all bad feeling, ever. Adam Parrish wanted him, and he wanted Adam Parrish.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

169. “Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne’er more again will I sing this song Ne’er more will I hear the harp.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

170. “Secrets and cockroaches – that’s what will be left at the end of it all.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

171. “Grace reached over and began stroking her fingers through my hair. I closed my eyes and let her drive me crazy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

172. “I’m sorry no one saved you.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

173. “If it had a social security number, Ronan had fought with it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

174. “Is that why you look like hell?” “Thanks, Parrish. I like your face, too.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

176. “Life’s pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

177. “A coward’s heart is no prize, but the man of valor deserves his shining helmet.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

178. “I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

179. “This was the dream: sitting in the passenger seat of Joseph Kavinsky’s Mitsubishi, the odor of a crash clinging to Ronan’s clothing, the white dash lights carving Kavinsky a gaunt and wild face, foully seductive lyrics spitting from the speakers, the vein-covered peaks of Kavinsky’s knuckles on the gearshift between them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

180. “Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she’d just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

181. “Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

182. “It’s a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

183. “Tell me,” Artemus whispered, ” when you dream, do you dream of the stars?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

184. “The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

185. “In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don’t have to see something to know it is there.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

186. “Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

187. “My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

188. “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

189. “I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don’t see inside his head.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

190. “The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

191. “I don’t care to be pretty,” Blue shot back hotly, “I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

192. “I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just – wanted.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

193. “Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

194. “Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

195. “Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

196. “A relationship that was squeezed into stolen glances and secret phone calls was drastically less than what she wanted that she refused to consider it dating.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

197. “Noah crouched over Gansey’s body. He said, for the last time, “You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.” Gansey died. “Good-bye,” Noah said. “Don’t throw it away.” He quietly slid from time.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

198. “Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

199. “He fell quietly from her arms. He was a king.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

200. “Sam,? the girl said. ‘Sam.’ She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer, but I was broken.”

— Maggie Stiefvater