Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “The annoying thing about Ronan was always that he was angry when everyone else was calm, and calm when everyone else was angry.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

402. “I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

403. “I am standing here in the shed, and I’m waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don’t know if it’s too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

404. “And this, I thought, was why Sam and Cole could not get along. Because when it came down to it, Cole made bad decisions for good reasons, and Sam couldn’t justify that. Now, Cole dangled this tempting thing in front of Sam, this thing he wanted more than anything, along with the thing that he wanted the least. I wasn’t sure which answer I wanted him to give.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

405. “After everything I’d lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

406. “I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you’re with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

407. “We bear the grins of the smiling dead.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

408. “Sam: “I – it’s – I’m not an animal.”

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409. “The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it’s still enough.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

410. “He was a king. This was the year he was going to die.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

411. “Gansey said, around his straw. “Why is the tea so good here?” “I spit in it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

412. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

413. “Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow. This was going to be a night.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

414. “When you traffic in monsters, that’s the risk you run, that you’ll find one too monstrous to stomach.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

415. “This was distressing. She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

416. “You’re getting your weird all over me.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

417. “I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

418. “Adam mused, “Incorruptus. I never thought anyone would use that word to describe Lynch.” Ronan looked as pleased as a pit viper ever could.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

419. “I can’t change the way I’m made. I’m a performer, a singer, a werewolf, a sinner.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

420. “When Adam kissed him, it was every mile per hour Ronan had ever gone over the speed limit. It was every window-down, goose-bumps-on-skin, teeth-chattering-cold night drive. It was Adam’s ribs under Ronan’s hands and Adam’s mouth on his mouth, again and again and again. It was stubble on his lips and Ronan having to stop, to get his breath, to restart his heart. They were both hungry animals, but Adam had been starving for far longer.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

421. “Right now, it’s hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

422. “I might never ride Corr again. I don’t know who I am without him.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

423. “We don’t have time to be sad.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

424. “Ronan was broken; Ronan was fixable; Ronan had a soul.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

425. “It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.”

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426. “In the night, I’ve shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They’re all nine feet tall and men and I’m four feet and a child. Dove, too, is a toy or possibly a dog as I lead her through the throngs of people.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

427. “The future was getting here faster than I’d expected.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

428. “The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains. – Cole.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

429. “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.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

430. “I whisper like the sea in the horse’s ear.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

431. “Piper’s lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

432. “I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she’d just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

433. “I wasn’t sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so much emotion that he had to spill it out every window of the house.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

434. “Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

435. “He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn’t want her to learn any bad language.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

436. “I couldn’t think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said “Grace.” The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

437. “It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.”

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438. “My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

439. “Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I’d just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

440. “Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

441. “Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

442. “A small percentage of medieval bodies were buried such; historians thought they were the graves of suicides or witches, though really, historians were such Guesser McGuessers, him the biggest of them all.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

443. “Here was a thing Francisco wanted: to find a pitch-black bud on one of his roses. Here was a thing he feared: being asked to do anything else.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

444. “I don’t cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

445. “Parrish wants to know if you killed yourself dreaming just now please advise.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

446. “Her mother waved a card at her in farewell. “Bye. Will you be home for dinner? I’m making midlife crisis.” “Oh,” Blue said, “I guess I’ll have a slice. If you’re making it already.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

447. “I’m quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

448. “She leaned toward me, offering her neck, and I kissed her just behind her ear.”

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449. “He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.”

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450. “Opal was glad to see he was slowly turning his ship toward the shore of solutions.”

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