Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love.So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness is growing palpable in this tiny town and I will NOT bury Grace's body--and I am a boy waiting--for the heat and the fruitfulness of summer, waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can't hear it, you can feel it.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

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

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Please kiss that girl a million times.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?

~ Maggie Stiefvater

His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

What can't you bear?''This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. 'That house you and Finn are in. People talking. The fish - goddamn fish. I'll smell like them for the rest of my life. The horses. Everything. I can't do it any more.'. . . It feels like he's confessed that he's dying of a disease I've never heard of, with symptoms I can't see.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby,” Calla said.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The world needs more love at first sight.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Reality's what other people dream for you.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Eaton looks to the man next to him, who licks his lips before saying, “There are rules on paper and rules too big for paper.”It takes me a moment to realize what this means, which is that there really is no rule against it, but they’re not going to let me ride anyway. This is like when Gabe and I would play games when we were younger — as soon as I got close to winning, he would change the rules on me.And just like back then, the unfairness of it makes my chest burn.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an ice-covered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

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

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Hurry up, before there's no more night left.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I said uselessly, Sam, don't go.Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.

~ Maggie Stiefvater