Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.

Well,” said Ronan, “I hope he likes it. I’ve pulled a muscle.” Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.” “Opening my hood.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.

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

Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough.

He's a pit bull," Adam said. "I know some really nice pit bulls." "He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him." "How noble.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

Hello, lovely. You're as pretty as pretty today.

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

I know not to trust anyone," i say. "Except..." Holly studies my face. "You do fancy him, don't you? What a strange, wonderful, repressed place this is.

Tommy grabs my waist and swings me around in a circle. I drag my feet because i am opposed to people touching me when I'm not expecting it. Also because it will take more than dancing to cheer me up.

Knowing what I was, and wanting me, anyway.

His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.

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

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.

You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see.

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

Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his.

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro.

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

at last no one decided And no one knocked And no one jumped up And no one opened And there stood no one And no one entered And no one said: welcome And no one answered: at last

I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how I look at him and how I find him looking back.

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back

I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.

She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.

when we're married, can we go to the ocean? I've never been

I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her" - Page 165

Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one

Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.

I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

i never pegged you for a fan of the obvious, sam", "i'm not, otherwise, i would've said, 'hey, shouldn't you be in school ?'", "touche

Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night..." Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.

I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?