Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— 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. “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

155. “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

156. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

158. “Jane!” Gansey said joyfully.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

159. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

177. “The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

181. “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

182. “I’m sorry no one saved you.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

184. “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

185. “On the outside, the three Lynch brothers appeared remarkably dissimilar: Declan, a butter-smooth politician; Ronan, a bull in a china-shop world; Matthew, a sunlit child. On the inside, the Lynch brothers were remarkably similar: They all loved cars, themselves, and each other.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

188. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

190. “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

191. “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

192. “Ronan, tell me now if I have to leash you, because I will,” Gansey said. Ronan immediately scoffed, but Gansey pointed at him. “I’m serious. This is not yours alone. If this is a tomb, someone has been buried here, and you’re going to give that person respect. Do not. Make me. Ask you. Again. For that matter, if any of us thinks they won’t be able to contain themselves going forward, I suggest we turn around and come back another day or the party in question waits out here.” Ronan simmered.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

193. “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

194. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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196. “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

197. “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

198. “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

199. “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

200. “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