Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

208. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

210. “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

211. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

214. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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216. “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

217. “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

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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

221. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

225. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

226. “Adam Parrish and the Crying Club.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

227. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

229. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— 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. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

234. “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

235. “She did not feel like Blue Sargent, superhero, or Blue Sargent, desperado, or Blue Sargent, badass.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

236. “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

237. “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

238. “Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben – We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

239. “She had still been learning how to live with the hard truth that the most interesting parts of her thoughts usually got left behind when she tried to put them into words.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

241. “There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.”

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242. “That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human. Delia: Why? Faerie: Untold delights and youth forever. Delia: I’m holding out for a better offer. Ta.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

243. “The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

244. “The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can’t both win.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

245. “At school, they were driven, quiet, invisible, model students, Aglionby Academy’s 11-percent-of-our-student-body-is-diverse-click-the-link-to-find-out-more-about-our-overseas-exchange-programs. Here, they slouched. They would not slouch at school. Here, they were angry. They could not afford to be angry at school. Here, they were loud. They did not trust themselves to be loud at school.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

246. “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

247. “It’s not going to be what you imagined, but it’ll be just as good.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

248. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

250. “There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn’t be acted out.”

— Maggie Stiefvater