Top 50 Margaret Stohl Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When I first met you, that’s what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I’m going to love this person because even the sky looks different.”

— Margaret Stohl

2. “I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.”

— Margaret Stohl

3. “It’s not easy to be Light when you’ve been Dark. It’s almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood.”

— Margaret Stohl

4. “Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.”

— Margaret Stohl

5. “Claim yourself.”

— Margaret Stohl

6. “The truth? What do you know about the truth? You’re so good at lying you don’t even know when you’re lying to yourself.”

— Margaret Stohl

7. “I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.”

— Margaret Stohl

8. “Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.”

— Margaret Stohl

9. “The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don’t even know exist. – Xavier, The Gatekeeper.”

— Margaret Stohl

10. “Love is it’s own oblivion; death seems somehow smaller.”

— Margaret Stohl

11. “Jump or stay in the boat.”

— Margaret Stohl

12. “In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.”

— Margaret Stohl

13. “He saved the world, but he shattered mine.”

— Margaret Stohl

14. “So yeah... They say you can never go home again, but it’s not true. You can go all you want... You just can’t expect it to be any different once you get there.”

— Margaret Stohl

15. “There are more reasons for people’s actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.”

— Margaret Stohl

16. “I’m Natasha Romanoff. Nobody judos my ass.”

— Margaret Stohl

17. “All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.”

— Margaret Stohl

18. “We aren’t saints. When we die, nobody mourns. That’s the only way this ends, for all of us.”

— Margaret Stohl

19. “There wasn’t an asteroid big enough to punch. Not this time. Not even the moon.”

— Margaret Stohl

20. “When I... was little... I thought... No I knew my family wasn’t perfect... But I thought love was.”

— Margaret Stohl

21. “Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they’ll learn ta clean themselves.’ That was a visual I didn’t need.”

— Margaret Stohl

22. “If you keep acting like an idiot and don’t get yourself straight, someone’s gonna get HURT because of it.”

— Margaret Stohl

23. “Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.”

— Margaret Stohl

24. “He took another breath. ‘Because I love you, Josephine March. I always have, and I always will. I think you know that, because I think you love me, too. I read your book, Jo. It’s all in there. The two of us. We’re meant to be together.”

— Margaret Stohl

25. “Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.”

— Margaret Stohl

26. “A love so strong, you can’t tell where you end and the other person begins.”

— Margaret Stohl

27. “When you’re with your family, the only fights you want to be having are – yanno – with your family. But things don’t always work out that way... not when you’re me.”

— Margaret Stohl

28. “There are reasons you don’t live with your parents once you’ve grown up. The criminal should never return to the crime scene. All the evidence is still there.”

— Margaret Stohl

29. “Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he’ll find the one thing you don’t want him to do, and do it every time. It’s one of his many gifts.”

— Margaret Stohl

30. “I haven’t left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?”

— Margaret Stohl

31. “When you’re alive, you don’t dwell on how you’re going to spend your time once you’re dead. You just figure you’re gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself. Or you think you’re not really going to die. You’re going to be the first person in the history of the world who doesn’t have to. Maybe that’s some kind of lie our brains tell us to keep us from going crazy while we’re alive.”

— Margaret Stohl

32. “For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.”

— Margaret Stohl

33. “Great. So he’s a genius. Fifty points for Ivanclaw.”

— Margaret Stohl

34. “These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. – Macon.”

— Margaret Stohl

35. “I used to think about how alike we all are. The human race, those of us who survived. Then I thought, if the stories were true and there were other Icon Children – if I met any – we would understand each other perfectly, the way Ro and I so often do.”

— Margaret Stohl

36. “Perhaps there is something more frightening than love itself.”

— Margaret Stohl

37. “The business of the dead belongs to the living.”

— Margaret Stohl

38. “The double-teaming paid off; there was no resisting the power of a Stark-Romanoff alliance for long.”

— Margaret Stohl

39. “Doc! I’d kiss you if you had a mouth, you sexy thing.” Ro shouts up to the sky, as if Doc were everywhere in the universe. Which, sometimes, it feels like he is. “And I would exchange data with you if you had a dataport, you exemplary specimen. Analogically speaking. Is that correct?”

— Margaret Stohl

40. “ROMANOFF: A gun might as well shoot both ways at once, sir. You want to take out the person in the crosshairs? You have to get okay with taking out the person at the trigger. You don’t get to choose.”

— Margaret Stohl

41. “ROMANOFF: Every Russian family line ends in a czar. That’s the only way the genealogist gets paid, sir.”

— Margaret Stohl

42. “Tony had started the evening off with his improvised Stark Quantum Detangler – quickly followed by a Stark Quantum Retangler – soon detouring into a little Stark Quantum Hypnotic Regulator, a Stark Quantum Rapid Eye Movement Stimulator, and a Stark Quantum Ultrasound Scanner. Basically, if Tony could put the words Stark or Quantum in front of it, he was game.”

— Margaret Stohl

43. “I don’t need Coulson or the cavalry,” Natasha said finally. “Please, I’m my own cavalry.”

— Margaret Stohl

44. “Because, while life is not fair, it is logical.”

— Margaret Stohl

45. “Lucas motions to Ro’s ears, where the blood is spattering down to his shoulders. “Let’s just get this done before our heads explode.” Ro considers him for a long moment, then hands him Tima’s map.”

— Margaret Stohl

46. “I’m getting pretty tired of unicorns. Could we try to get a regular horse around here for once?”

— Margaret Stohl

47. “I didn’t feel very powerful. as a matter of fact, with every word, it got harder and harder to breathe. I couldn’t pretend any longer, and now a great hopelessness rose inside me, an uncontrollable tide... and as it threatened to swallow me... I threatened to let it.”

— Margaret Stohl

48. “Her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place I was from.”

— Margaret Stohl

49. “She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we’d had chicken tonight.”

— Margaret Stohl

50. “Not everything that comes from the sky is an angel. It’s true. And not everything that lives on the Earth is a human. Also true.”

— Margaret Stohl