Top 500 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

402. “My father said once that if I didn’t have my mother’s ginger hair, I wouldn’t blush or curse as easily. Which I though was unfair. I hardly ever curse or blush, even though I’ve had plenty of days that required both.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

403. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

405. “He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else’s charcoal grill.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

406. “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

407. “We don’t have time to be sad.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

408. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

410. “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

411. “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

412. “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

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. “Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments – and then roared to deafening life. The Camaro lived to fight another day. The radio was even working, playing the Stevie Nicks song that always sounded to Gansey like it was about a one-winged dove.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

415. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

417. “Blue radiated psychic energy for others, but touch was where she gained hers back. She was always hugging her mother or holding Noah’s hand or linking her elbow in Adam’s or resting her boots on Ronan’s legs as they sat on the sofa. Touching Gansey’s neck just between his hair and his collar. This.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

418. “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

419. “Dreams are not the safest thing to build a life on.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

420. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

422. “Nothing had changed. Nothing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

423. “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

424. “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

425. “Most people had an acquired kind of beauty, they became better looking the longer you knew them and the better you loved them, but Cole had unfairly skipped to the end of the game, all jaggedly handsome and Hollywood-looking. Not needing any love to get there.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

427. “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

428. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

430. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

432. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

434. “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

435. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

439. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

441. “I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they’re ready.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

447. “Hello, lovely. You’re as pretty as pretty today.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

448. “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

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

450. “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