Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “He was full of so many wants, too many to prioritize, and so they all felt desperate.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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254. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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

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260. “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

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

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262. “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.”

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263. “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

264. “Friendship of the unshakeable kind. Friendship you could swear on. That could be busted nearly to breaking and come back stronger than before.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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267. “I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.”

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268. “I’d always liked jogging because it was a place to think.”

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269. “Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn’t be escapism.”

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270. “I know you are not the same as him, Adam said. But in my head, everything is always so tangled. I am such a damaged thing.”

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271. “His mother had told him that when you looked into the eyes of God at the pearly gates, all the questions you ever had were answered. Ronan had a lot of questions. Waking Glendower might be like that. Fewer angels attending, and maybe a heavier Welsh accent. Slightly less judgment.”

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272. “Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.”

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273. “I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.”

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274. “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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275. “He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat – one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred dollar that were usually worn by people who spend more time in Land Rovers than barns.”

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276. “He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: “Take me with you.” He woke up.”

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277. “What an impossible and miraculous and hideous thing this was. An ugly plan hatched by an ugly boy now dreamt into ugly life. From dream to reality. How appropiate it was that Ronan, left to his own devices, manifested beautiful cars and beautiful birds and tenderhearted brothers, while Adam, when given the power, manifested a filthy string of perverse murders.”

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278. “How quickly George Holly’s become one of us – that I should be riding in a race against a few dozen capaill uisce and he thinks it’s the men I should be worried about.”

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279. “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.”

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280. “I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.”

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281. “She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see.”

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282. “When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.”

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283. “I am just a mythological creature, after all. I technically shouldn’t exist.”

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284. “There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn’t remember what the sky looked like. But I didn’t die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.”

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285. “I slithered out of the sinkhole on my stomach. It was not the sexiest move I’d ever performed, but I was impressed nonetheless.”

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286. “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

287. “I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don’t feel like I’m meeting someone who feels real, I’m not going to be compelled to read further.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

288. “Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.”

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289. “He was so much more dangerous when he wasn’t angry.”

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290. “I don’t think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.”

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291. “I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just looked at me like I was – nothing. An annoyance, maybe.”

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292. “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.”

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293. “If you combined these two things – the unfathomable and the practical – you were most of the way to understanding Adam Parrish.”

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294. “Was that what life did to them all? Chiseled them into harder, truer versions of themselves?”

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295. “Declan stood stiff as a middle-schooler hugged by a parent in front of school, but Jordan saw his nostrils flare and his eyes go terribly bright. He blinked, blinked, blinked and then he had his usual bland expression by the time the man stepped back. ‘I’m proud of you,’ he told Declan. Her dauntless Declan.”

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296. “These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it’s me. Please.”

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297. “I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye.”

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298. “Ronan was always saying that he never lied, but he wore a liar’s face.”

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299. “They were headed back to Henrietta in the Pig, Gansey’s furiously orange-red ancient Camaro. Gansey drove, because when it was the Camaro, he always drove. And the conversation was about Glendower, because when you were with Gansey, the conversation was almost always about Glendower.”

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300. “Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.”

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