Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don’t believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

204. “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

205. “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

206. “Teenagers want to be able to fight for what’s right – but finding out what’s right is now 90 percent of the battle.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn’t a fan of lamps.”

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211. “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.”

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212. “She doesn’t know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn’t fly away. She doesn’t know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

213. “Don’t panic. Are you sitting? You probably don’t need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

214. “You can hear a miracle a long way after dark. Miracles are very like radio waves in this way. Not many people realize that the ordinary radio wave and the extraordinary miracle have much in common. Left to their own devices, radio waves would not be audible for much more than forty or fifty miles. They travel on perfectly straight paths from their broadcast source, and because the Earth is round, it does not take them long to part ways with the ground and head out to the stars.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

215. “It’s like thinking you’re going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

216. “He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.”

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217. “His presence, so strange and wonderful, seemed to fill the room and press against me. I didn’t think I’d ever sleep again.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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219. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

220. “I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it’s never over.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

221. “When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.”

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222. “Adam Parrish and the Crying Club.”

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223. “What fresh hell is this?” Gansey asked pleasantly.”

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224. “What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic than was in the world.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

225. “Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.”

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226. “You swallow her with your eyes. I’m surprised there’s any of her left for the rest of us to see.”

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227. “Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.”

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228. “It was this: Gansey saying, “I like you an awful lot, Blue Sargent.”

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229. “The only thing was, she didn’t really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic that was in the world.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

230. “He smiled tolerantly at her. Rubbing his smooth chin its recently assassinated chin hairs, he studied her. She barely came up to Ronan’s shoulder, but she was every bit as big as he, every bit as present.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

231. “Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre – contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

232. “If that moment had been a real thing, it would’ve been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.”

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233. “His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.”

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234. “Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff and then another one. His smile widened though it was still shy. It was absolutely adorable and my breath got caught somewhere in my throat.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

235. “The only oxygen to be found was the pale band of skin on Adam’s wrist where his watch had been and the glimpse of the sky between classes.”

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236. “When you don’t have time to be afraid, I guess it’s easy to be brave.”

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237. “Oh, filmmakers, please don’t take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.”

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238. “Sam pushed open the door without waiting for my answer. A wonderful wave of new-book smell came rushing out, reminding me immediately of Christmas. My parents always got me books for Christmas. With a melodic ding, the shop door swung shut behind us, and Sam released my hand. “Where to? I’ll buy you a book. I know you want one.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

239. “She tossed the knife into the sink, where it would remain until it died.”

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240. “Write the book you’ve always wanted to read, but can’t find on the shelf.”

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241. “Desire and dread lay right next to each other in his heart, each sharpening the other.”

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242. “Because Niall Lynch was the biggest liar of them all, and he’d stuffed all of that into his eldest son. There was not much difference between a lie and a secret.”

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243. “Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.”

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244. “Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed.”

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245. “I’m bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!”

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246. “He’d chosen his weapon well: only the truth, untempered by kindness.”

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247. “This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.”

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248. “You’re looking for a god. Didn’t you suspect that there was also a devil?”

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249. “It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn’t as wide as I’d originally thought.”

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250. “Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage.”

— Maggie Stiefvater