Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2026 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. “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

203. “The nonhuman world has patterns, too. Look at veins of a leaf, your hand, a tree, gold through rock, a river headed to sea, lightning. And again, again not just in the visible but also in the invisible. In the airflow, particles, sound waves, ley lines, too, veining across this poor, battered home of ours. Again, again, again. Everything predicts everything else. Everything affects everything else.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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205. “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

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

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207. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

209. “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

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210. “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

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

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

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214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

217. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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221. “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

222. “This was a beautiful, old wood, all massive oak and ash trees finding footing among great slabs of cracked stone. Ferns sprang from rocks and verdant moss grew up the sides of the tree trunks. The air itself was scented with green and growing and water. The light was golden through the leaves. Everything was alive, alive.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

223. “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

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

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225. “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

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

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227. “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

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

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

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230. “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

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

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232. “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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233. “Something strange and chemical was happening to the Gray Man. Once, he’d been stabbed with a screwdriver – Phillips head, bright blue handle – and falling in love with Maura Sargent was exactly the same.”

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234. “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.”

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235. “Demon’s coming! Everyone dies. Except for her useless father. He’ll live for ever.”

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236. “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.”

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

238. “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

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

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

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242. “Adam Parrish and the Crying Club.”

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

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245. “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

246. “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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247. “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.”

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248. “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

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

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250. “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