Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

153. “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

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. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

157. “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

158. “Jane!” Gansey said joyfully.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

162. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

164. “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

165. “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

166. “I didn’t want normal until I didn’t have it anymore.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

170. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

174. “I’m sorry no one saved you.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

182. “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

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

186. “It was funny, the Gray Man thought, how humorous she always appeared, how that smile was always just a moment away from her lips. You really didn’t see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn’t it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs. And here was the other trick: Maura was not faking her happiness. She was both very happy and very sad.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

192. “The appetizers were delicious, not because of the kitchen, but because all food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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

196. “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

197. “Ronan replied, ‘I’m waiting for you to tell me what to do, Gansey. Tell me where to go.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

200. “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