Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

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

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253. “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!”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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

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259. “He was full of so many wants, too many to prioritize, and so they all felt desperate.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

260. “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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261. “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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262. “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.”

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

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264. “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

265. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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271. “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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272. “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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273. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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276. “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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277. “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

278. “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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279. “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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280. “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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281. “I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.”

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

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

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285. “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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286. “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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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. “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

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

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

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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. “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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293. “There aren’t terrible ideas. Just ideas done terribly.”

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294. “All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.”

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295. “The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.”

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296. “I don’t care for werewolves. They’re all right, I guess, if you go for the shedding, savaging the country-side thing. But they’re not very scary nor very sexy and so what’s the point?”

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297. “I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.”

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298. “Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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