Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

402. “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

403. “Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn’t the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

404. “We don’t have time to be sad.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

405. “Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you’re just listening to a CD called ‘The Sounds of Crime’ while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

406. “We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

407. “I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

410. “She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she’d never met him.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

411. “I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.”

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412. “I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

413. “It’s like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable – different reactions to the same temperature.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

414. “Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead. I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. It was almost like he was there.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

416. “In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

418. “Nothing had changed. Nothing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

419. “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

420. “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

421. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

423. “Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

429. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

431. “I always listen to you. Except when I don’t.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

432. “His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he’d let them overflow and now there wasn’t a damn place in the ocean that wouldn’t catch fire if he dropped a match.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

433. “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

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

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

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436. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

441. “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

442. “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

443. “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

444. “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

445. “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

446. “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

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

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448. “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

449. “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

450. “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