Top 150 Maria V. Snyder Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.”

— Maria V. Snyder

52. “You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.”

— Maria V. Snyder

53. “Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, ‘Stand back or I’ll stab him in the stomach,’ then I have an idea about how serious you are. After all, Leif’s stomach is his favorite body part so that’s a decent threat.”

— Maria V. Snyder

54. “Our herd may roam, but we all know where is home.”

— Maria V. Snyder

55. “Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, listening to his heart beat. Strong and steady. No indication that he had been sneaking around.”

— Maria V. Snyder

56. “Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.”

— Maria V. Snyder

57. “Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.”

— Maria V. Snyder

58. “I didn’t want to share you, love. We have a lot of catching up to do.”

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59. “In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was ‘The horses know where to go.’ It’s certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I’ve learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.”

— Maria V. Snyder

60. “Your soul fits the void in my soul perfectly.”

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61. “I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.”

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62. “Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.”

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63. “What happened in the past can’t be changed, but it can be a guide for what happens in your future.”

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64. “My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.”

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65. “Life is like molten glass. It flows, it’s flexible, it can be molded and shaped and... what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can’t be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.”

— Maria V. Snyder

66. “Resting, recuperating, moping, it’s all the same.”

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67. “You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.”

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68. “Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. Yalena Why don’t you? Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints.”

— Maria V. Snyder

69. “Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies.”

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70. “As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well – a trick I had learned from my father.”

— Maria V. Snyder

71. “Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.”

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72. “If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.”

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73. “I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.”

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74. “Out of nowhere, Valek appeared before me, yelling in my ear, shaking my shoulders. Stupidly, belatedly, I realized he was the drunk. Who else but Valek could win a fight against four large men when armed only with a beer mug?”

— Maria V. Snyder

75. “You keep things interesting, love. It would be boring without you.”

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76. “Dark shadows of grief haunted his expression. More than any one person should be asked to bear. But that was the problem with grief. No one ever asked for it. It arrived with its bags packed for an extended stay. It settled into your best guest room and demanded to be waited on all day long, and which it finally shuffled out the door, it left behind permanent scratches on your furniture.”

— Maria V. Snyder

77. “But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.”

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78. “Your soul is drenched black with the blood of your victims, my dear, and that is why you can’t see it. When you die, that heavy blood filled essence will sink to the bottom of the earth where you will burn in eternity for your crimes.”

— Maria V. Snyder

79. “And clay-caked clothes are so last year.”

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80. “Valek would get more from me than a smile.”

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81. “Kerrick the weed.”

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82. “My cape caught fire. I dived to the sand and rolled on the ground to snuff the flames. So much for my grand entrance.”

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83. “I reached 1400 weeks, the age of maturity. The age when you were no longer considered a child. It was when you became a scrub and the reality of what the rest of your life would be like became suddenly and brutally apparent. The old-timers called it sweet sixteen, but there wasn’t anything sweet about it. I.”

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84. “When I carved this, my thoughts were on you, love. Your life is like this snake’s coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you’ll end up back where you belong. With me.”

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85. “I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything’s superior neck.”

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86. “Should haves lead to death.”

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87. “It’s a good thing you’re not my Story Weaver. You’re easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can’t see the quality of the threads.” “Well.”

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88. “I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.”

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89. “I never laugh at a beautiful woman. I’d much rather laugh and dance with her.”

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90. “The benefit of appearing so young is I’m constantly underestimated.”

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91. “Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.”

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92. “Dead air surrounded me. My magic was gone.”

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93. “Some Queen of the Pipes, I thought. I’d believed I was better than a mindless drone. But I was the mindless one, hiding away. Even now I referred to them as if I didn’t belong.”

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94. “It’s a good thing you can’t read my mind, love.”

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95. “His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.”

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96. “I’m your mother. I see all. Hear all. Know all.”

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97. “It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.”

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98. “He was the test I hadn’t studied for, the quiz I was bound to fail. Out of my depth.”

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99. “There might be plenty of rainy days, but those perfect ones will make all the memories of rain disappear.”

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100. “When the effort fails, is it worth the cost?”

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