Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

“As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders ... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

— Maggie Stiefvater

He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“There is no good word for the opposite of lonesome.
One might be tempted to suggest togetherness or contentment , but the fact that these two other words bear definitions unrelated to each other perfectly displays why lonesome cannot be properly mirrored. It does not mean solitude, nor alone, nor lonely, although lonesome can contain all of those words in itself.
Lonesome means a state of being apart. Of being other. Alone-some.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Tuesdays were my favorite day. I don't remember why-it was just something about the way that u looked like when it was next to e that seemed very friendly.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She was the only person who he could not dazzle, and he loved her for it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Blue got herself back together and then turned on the radio.
Adam hadn't even realized the ancient tape deck worked, but after a hissing few seconds, a tape inside jangled a tune. Noah began to sing along at once.
'Squash one, squash two-'
Adam pawed for the radio at the same time as Blue. The tape ejected with enough force that Noah stretched a hand to catch it.
'That song. What are you doing with that in your player?' Demanded Blue. 'Do you listen to that recreationally? How did that song escape from the Internet?'
Noah cackled and showed them the cassette. It boasted a handmade label marked with Ronan's handwriting: PARRISH'S HONDAYOTA ALONE TIME. The other side was A SHITBOX SINGALONG.
'Play it! Play it!' Noah said gaily, waving the tape.
'Noah. Noah! Take that away from him,' Adam said.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue's awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue's wonder made it holy.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He let his mind wander slightly closer to his present. Electronic music bled into his awareness, reminding him that his body was actually in Ronan's car. In this other place, it was easy to tell that the music was the sound of Ronan's soul. Hungry and prayerful, it whispered of dark places, old places, fire and sex.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

“He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“As he stepped out of the science building, he tipped his head backward, as if Ronan Lynch - dreamer of dreams, fighter of men, skipper of classes - might somehow be flying overhead.
He was not.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“And Calla was indeed in fine form. She barked, Do you remember how I said that there were three sleepers, and Maura's job was to not wake one of them, and your job was to wake one of the others? Remember how I didn't say anything about the other one? I did not mean bring her to my kitchen.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“His mother's father had been a diplomat, an architect of fortunes; his father's father had been an architect, a diplomat of styles.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

I tried to think of what an actual human would say in this situation. I asked, "Are you okay?" Sofia began to cry, which was exactly why I generally tried to avoid being a human.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It was a powerful thing, that laugh. He only did it once, but his eyes remained shaped like it. Something inside her did a complicated tug. Oh no! she thought. But then she calmed herself. Richard C. Gansey III has a nice mouth. Now I know he has nice eyes when he”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Touch it," Blue whispered. "See if it's alive, too."
"One of you two Poverty Twins should touch it," Ronan said. "I touched the last one."
"What did you just call me?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Once, Gansey had overhead his father saying, Why in the world did he even want that car? and his mother replying, Oh, I know why. One day he would find an opportunity to bring up that conversation with her, because he wanted to know why she thought he had bought it. Analyzing what motivated him to put up with the Camaro made Gansey feel unsettled, but he knew it had something to do with how sitting in this perfectly restored Peugeot made him feel. A car was a wrapper for its contents, he thought, and if he looked on the inside like any of the cars in this garage looked on the outside, he couldn't live with himself. On the outside, he knew he looked a lot like his father. On the inside, he sort of wished he looked more like the Camaro. Which was to say, more like Adam.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat
one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred dollar that were usually worn by people who spend more time in Land Rovers than barns.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Ninety percent of how Ronan conveyed his feelings was through his body language, and a phone simply didn't care.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I let him get a few steps away, and then I asked the burning question. "Why were you here?"
Luke shrugged. "You wanted saving, didn't you?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He mumbled, "I'd ask you out, if I was alive."
"I'd say OK," she replied.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It felt as if there were a larger, terribly curious Blue inside her that was about to bust out of the smaller, more sensible Blue that held her.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

She's around here somewhere. Check your pockets. She could be there. Sometimes she falls into these cracks between the floorboards.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Also, I was something of an expert on headaches. They were a hobby of mine.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

“You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's an of her left for the rest of us to see.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

I wanted Isabel, but she was such an impossible thing to want.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“My ride's here."
"Temporary ride."
Blue exploded, hurling her yogurt container into the recycling bin. "What is it, Orla? Jealousy? Or what? You just don't want me to like them as well as I do because ... you're trying to save me from being hurt? You know what else is temporary? Life.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“They never really lived like you're thinking of life. It's not a soul that's animating them. Take away the dreamer and ...”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Graduation breathes on us, redneck lady," he said. "Now is the time to make sure we have the strings to all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I just don't- Ronan. My ears are bleeding!
Ronan turned down the music.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

And then, even if I pulled all that off, if I took something that big out of my dream, it would drain the ley line, possible making Cabeswater disappear again, this time with us in it, sending us all to some never-never land of time-space fuckery that we might never escape from.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“One wall of the living room was almost entirely made up of tall windows, and the now-dark winter night seemed to enter the room without permission.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Blue draped an arm over his cold neck. There wasn't really anything to say to make being dead better.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“What do you want, Adam? To feel awake when my eyes are open.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

No," Blue said dangerously. "But sometimes bad things happen to good children.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan watched Gansey over the body of the creature - it seemed even larger in its death - and his expression was as unguarded as Gansey had ever seen it. He was being made to understand that this, all of it, was a confession. A look into who Ronan really had been the entire time he had known him. What

— Maggie Stiefvater

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed”

— Maggie Stiefvater