Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Sam- After you were bitten, i knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so i could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt. Grace- How long did you wait? Sam- I haven't stopped.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

You're my change of skin/ my summer-winter-fall/ I spring to follow you/ this loss is beautiful

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

She stood on the ledge of his smile and looked over the edge.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

She tapped out a beat on the edge of the piano as I tripped and plummeted through the refrain of “Spacebar,” trying to translate the synth chords into a piano bit on the fly. It had been a million years since I’d played it.But it was still catchy.Whoever had written this song had known what they were doing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned the side of my face against his ruff and remembered the golden wood he had shown me so long ago. I remembered the way the yellow leaves, the color of Sam’s eyes, fluttered and twisted, crashing butterflies, on their way to the ground. The slender white trunks of the birches, creamy and smooth as human skin. I remembered Sam standing in the middle of the wood, his arms stretched out, a dark, solid form in the dream of the trees. His coming to me, me punching his chest, the soft kiss. I remembered every kiss we’d ever had, and I remembered every time I’d curled in his human arms. I remembered the soft warmth of his breath on the back of my neck while we slept.I remembered Sam.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

What was a kiss without a kiss? It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, everything jumbled against everything else in just a few chaotic moments. Fingers in hair. Hands cupping necks. Mouths dragged on cheeks and chins in dangerous proximity.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn't feel bad about that. It's not your bear.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

...all she could think was 'This is how close a kiss is'. It felt every bit as dangerous as she'd imagined.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

All food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. Chainsaw eyed herself briefly before hiding on the other side of Ronan's neck; Adam did the same, but without the hiding-in-Ronan's-neck bit. Even Blue looked less fanciful that usual, the lighting rendering her lampshade dress and spiky hair as a melancholy Pierrot.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan’s lack of heat tolerance. “I didn’t say anything.” “Whatever, man,” Ronan replied. “I know that face. You were born in hell, you’re used to it.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Because Niall Lynch was the biggest liar of them all, and he’d stuffed all of that into his eldest son. There was not much difference between a lie and a secret.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

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

~ Maggie Stiefvater

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

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

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

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

~ Maggie Stiefvater

She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

They didn't even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldn't be deciding who deserved to live or die.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

You have to take it off the table,' Jeremy said, finally. 'It's always going to be an option, otherwise. You're going to have to give it up and mean it, or it'll always be your solution when things go bad.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

~ Maggie Stiefvater