Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Blue never grew tired of feeling particularly needed, but sometimes she wish needed felt less like a synonym for useful.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

302. “I don’t think I could ever give up music. It’s what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

304. “I am unknowable, Ronan Lynch.”

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

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306. “I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, Im aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a readers emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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

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310. “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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311. “No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.”

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312. “Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.”

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313. “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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314. “She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn’t holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn’t pulling hard enough to get away.”

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315. “Ronan’s expression was still incendiary. His code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. It wasn’t that he didn’t condone them; he couldn’t understand.”

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316. “She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I growled before I could stop myself.”

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317. “Your hair is all funky in the morning.”

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318. “It’s a bomb. Just like you.”

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319. “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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320. “He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class and Thank you for your donation and Honey, could you bring me my sweater with the duck on it?”

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321. “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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322. “And they dreamt. They dreamt and dreamt, and the stars wheeled overhead and away and the moon hid in the trees and the sun moved around the car.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

323. “As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.”

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324. “Don’t give me that look. I’m not trying to find out who you are. I don’t care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.”

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325. “Ronan Lynch – dreamer of dreams, fighter of men, skipper of classes – might.”

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326. “I probably can’t stop you from meeting him anyway,” Maura said. “I mean, if Neeve is right about why you saw him. You’re fated to meet him.” “Fate,” Blue replied, glowering at her mother, “is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

327. “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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328. “How ungrateful they’d become, how greedy for better wonders.”

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

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330. “The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could’ve happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was ‘normal’“.”

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

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332. “I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.”

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333. “Need was Adam’s baseline, his resting pulse. Love was a privilege. Adam was privileged; he did not want to give it up. He wanted to remember again and again how it felt.”

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334. “It was Ronan, unperformed. No. Ronan, unprotected. This tone reminded Adam of that unshielded smile from before. Don’t play, he told himself. This is not a game. But it didn’t feel like a game, if he was being honest. Adrenaline whispered in his heart.”

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335. “Ronan was angry-every one of his emotions that wasn’t happiness was anger.”

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336. “Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn’t underneath it.”

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337. “It was this: laughing senselessly into each other’s skin, playing, until it was abruptly no longer play, and Gansey stopped himself with his mouth perilously close to hers, and Blue stopped herself with her belly pressed close to his. It was this: Gansey saying, “I like you an awful lot, Blue Sargent.” It was this: Blue’s smile – crooked, wry, ridiculous, flustered.”

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338. “I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.”

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339. “There was no kindness on Mr. Gray’s face. “Unless you have hidden reserves of strength you didn’t display on the way down, we cannot carry her and Maura, and I know which one I prefer.”

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340. “My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.”

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341. “If the waitress comes, order me a coffee and something that involves bacon.”

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342. “And what else would he get into? Kavinsky’s dead so – Jesus Chrirst, listen to me. Jesus Christ.” The cave walls crumbled yet more; the ritual before had been imperfect. Gansey sat back against the wall and closed his eyes. Adam watched him swallow. Again he heard Gansey’s voice in the cave. “It’s okay,” Adam said. He did not care that Joseph Kavinsky was dead, but he liked that Gansey did. “I know what you meant.”

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343. “I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish – her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.”

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344. “He was struck by what a glorious and fearless animal Blue Sargent was, and he made a mental note to tell her that very thing, if she didn’t drown getting whatever the second thing was.”

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345. “I couldn’t imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.”

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346. “I’d learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space.”

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347. “Look, I realize both of you could happily strangle each other across the table, but I don’t think that’s the most effective use of our time, and frankly, I don’t think I have enough money to tip the waitress for that kind of clean-up. And look, here’s lunch. Let’s eat that instead of eachother.”

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348. “Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace’s relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won’t settle for less.”

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349. “At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.”

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350. “Ronan said, “I’m always straight.” Adam replied, “Oh, man, that’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told.”

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