Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I'm sorry it wasn't puppies.

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

Because you know that's not how you want it to end. You know I'd love to have you with me, and it will be that way, one day. But this isn't the way it ought to happen.

Could others hold him?" His face remains the same. "There are no others. You're the only one." I swallow. "I can hold him.

I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

It matters, like this: I belong to Malvern, you don't.

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

I don't care for werewolves. They're all right, I guess, if you go for the shedding, savaging the country-side thing. But they're not very scary nor very sexy and so what's the point?

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

I wish you could be kissed, Jane, ' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

Ronan said, "I'm always straight."Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.

Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.

What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you, ' I said to her.

Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.

Is this thing safe?""Safe as life, " Gansey replied.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper

I am so, so alive.

We have to be back in three hours, " Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.""This, " Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.

Fate, " Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

Did you get notes for me?""No", Ronan replied, "I thought you were dead in a ditch.

We were so little when you took away all our sins.

I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division is desperatley flawed, while I multiply days without her.

They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.

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.

I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

At this, Gansey rolled over onto his back and folded his hands on his chest. He wore a salmon polo shirt, which, in Blue’s opinion, was far more hellish than anything they’d discussed to this point.

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

Pain was a torn piece of paper.

I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going to hurt me again and that I didn't have the strength to push her away before she did.

What do you mean Ronan's a magical entity? Is he a demon? Because this all makes sense if so.

Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.

I don’t care to be pretty, ” Blue shot back hotly, “I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.

It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.

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.

A symptom, " Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. "You're both fools.

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

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

Please kiss that girl a million times.

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

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.

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

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