Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

203. “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

204. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

227. “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

228. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

229. “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

230. “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

231. “Adam Parrish and the Crying Club.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

233. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

236. “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

237. “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

238. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

242. “The air smelled better than peach cobbler, all clean and fresh and alive with rain, electricity, pine resin. If.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

243. “Sean takes my ponytail in his hand, his fingers touching my neck, and then he tucks my hair into my collar out of the reach of the wind. He avoids my gaze. Then he links his arm back around me and pushes his calf into Corr’s side.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

245. “I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

246. “Is it your – your thoughts that are in Latin? Or the dialogue? Do other people speak Latin in them? Like, am I in your dreams?” “Oh, yes, baby.” It amused Ronan to say this, a lot. He laughed enough that Chainsaw abandoned her paper shredding to verify that he wasn’t dying.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

248. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater