Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben – We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.”

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252. “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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253. “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.”

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254. “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!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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264. “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.”

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

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

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267. “She was laughing even as we kissed and kissed again. There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.”

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

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269. “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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270. “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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271. “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

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

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

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

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

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277. “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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278. “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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279. “I’d always liked jogging because it was a place to think.”

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

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281. “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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282. “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.”

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

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285. “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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286. “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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287. “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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288. “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

289. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

290. “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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291. “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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292. “Ronan shook his head, but then, with a wicked smile, he began to sing, “Squash one, squash two, s – ” “Not that one,” both Adam and Gansey said. “I’m not listening to that for three hours,” Adam said. Gansey pointed at Ronan until he began to breathily whistle a jaunty reel.”

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

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

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

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296. “As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.”

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297. “Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream.”

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

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299. “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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300. “Dream me the world. Something new for every night.” Gansey said.”

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