Maggie Stiefvater famous quotes

The world needs more love at first sight.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Sight #Needs #World

Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Self #Grace #Overestimate

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Love #Shiver #Who You Are

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Kindness #People #Should

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

#Stars #Numbers #Depth

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

#Knowing #Hated #Wanted

Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don’t (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don’t have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Baby #Self Confidence #Thinking

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Party #Silence #Tasers

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

#Tree #Reason #Humans

I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Dream #Would Be #Good Times

I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Dad #Grateful #Smile Because

Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Thoughtful #Color #Glasses

...she made her home in between the pages of books.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Book #Home #Pages

a life is measured by moments like these
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Live In The Moment #Life Is #Moments

names are a way to keep people in your mind
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Names #People #Mind

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

#Suicidal #Risk #Needs

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.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Song #Writing #Looks

I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about the way he looks at me – with respect – and I think that’s probably worth more than anything.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Thinking #Touching #Way

She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Girl #Men #Land

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

#Horse #Normal #Sound

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Crushed

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Stupid #Obstacles #Sometimes

What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Baby #Eye #Opportunity

Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Lunch #Doubt #Guilt

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.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Night #Giving #Saint

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Tired #Wake Up #Want

I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Way

Clutter is my natural habitat.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Habitat #Natural #Clutter

Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Numbers #Said

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Stupid #Seven #Fourteen

Avoidance is a wonderful therapy
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Wonderful #Therapy #Avoidance

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Memories #Ties #Scent

Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Arms #Said

That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom & Sons, and she follows my gaze to Puck. "Neither of you are a housewife." I don't look away from Puck. "I think you assume too much, Dory Maud." "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.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Eye #Son #Thinking

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

#Starting Over #Expectations #Decision

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Beautiful #Distraction #Wanted

This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from the friction of the saddle. My arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand. I am so, so alive.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Beach #Horse #Sleep

Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Book #Moving #Mean

She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#People #Going Out #Findings

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#World #Notes

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

#Years #Seven

How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.” “His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?” Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Father #Names #Voice

She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Lovely #Saws #Adam

Blue stretched her hand out. Adam took it without hesitation, like he'd been waiting for her to offer it. He said in a low voice, just for her, "My heart is beating like crazy right now." Strangely enough, it was not his fingers twined in hers that affected Blue the strongest, it was where his warm wrist pressed against hers above their hands.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Crazy #Heart #Hands

I thought I heard---" Gansey broke off. His eyes dropped to where Adam held Blue's hand. Again his face was somewhat puzzled by the fact of their hand-holding. Adam's grip tightened, although she didn't think he meant for it to.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Eye #Thinking #Hands

At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Blue #Mouths #Want

I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Dog #Shade #Hours

I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#I Like You #Boys #Broken

World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Voice #Giving #Walking Dead

The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#School #Numbers #Blue

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Fall #Cutting #People

My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Tools #Destruction #Ability

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Alive #Wonderful #Dangerous

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Pain #Blood #Sand

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
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Strong #Mean #Men

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

#Rain #Faces #Scent

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.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Beautiful #Animal #Sound

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Christian #Men #Race

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.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Eye #Missing #Trying

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
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Lasts #Welcome #Said

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Hands #Ideas #Water

Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him. 'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Song #Dirty #Odds

I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want to know that somewhere else in the world, someone else has to eat soot as well. I want to know that soot tastes terrible. I don't want to be told that soot's good for the digestion. And of course, by soot, I mean beans.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Mean #Taste #Digestion

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Lonely #Comforting #Bricks

Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me." Duke- Lament
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Girl #Dukes #Cry

You two are a strange pair. You are a pair, aren't you?" "We're in training.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Two #Training #Pairs

Its beyond him now. its time for you to do you own thing." "My thing? my thing only worked if Grace was here to make it work. without Grace, i have an emotionally unbalanced wolf and a Volkswagen.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Grace #Unbalanced #Volkswagens

Can I ask you a question?" "You already have." He paused, considering. "Can I ask you two questions, then?" "You already have.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Two #Considering

I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so much emotion that he had to spill it out every window of the house.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#House #Feelings #Emotion

It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Rope #Enough #Chasms

[I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my lungs were made of lead. Like I can't even think about starting to care about anything. Like I either wish that they were all dead, or I was, because I can't stand the pull of all that history between us. That's before I even pick up the phone. I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Tired #Thinking #Phones

Are you high? Why are you never wearing a shirt?" "I sleep naked," Cole said. He put both milk and sugar in my coffee. "As the day goes on, I put on more and more clothing. You should've come over an hour ago.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Coffee #Sleep #Goes On

The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Weed #Coffee #Interesting

He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class and Thank you for your donation and Honey, could you bring me my sweater with the duck on it?
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Voice #Ducks #Sweaters

Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Hated

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Past #Facts #Stories

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

#Land #Keys #People

Looking at him like that, I felt like I needed something from him, or somebody, and that probably meant that he also needed something from me, or somebody, but the revelation was like looking at spots on a slide. Knowing that it meant something to somebody wasn't the same as it meaning something to you.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Knowing #Slides #Revelations

Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I'd scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Suicide #Tired #Trying

I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Two #Guitar #Bored

I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

Nobody ever sees this part,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s pretty.” “So it’s like track six on an album,” Cole said.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Track #Albums #Matter

I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just looked at me like I was — nothing. An annoyance, maybe.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Expression #Saws #Expecting

The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that that sort of love only worked when you were sure both people would always be around for each other. If one half of the equation left, or died, or was slightly less perfect in their love, it became the most tragic, pathetic story invented, laughable in its absurdity. Without Grace, Sam was a joke without a punch line.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Perfect #People #Grace

It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Dark #Cds #Weapons

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Father #Long #Boxes

There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Beautiful #Lonely #Art

The guitar," I said, "will only obey its master." "Yeah," Cole agreed, "but Grace isn't here." He grinned at me slyly.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Guitar #Grace #Yeah

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

#Eye #Kissing #Expression

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Monday #Long #Feelings

she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke)
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Months #Made #Life Worth Living

Cole made a hissing sound. "Are you inside yet? God bless America and all her sons. What is taking you so long?" The front door was locked. "Here, talk to Grace" "Mommy isn't going to give a different answer than Daddy," Cole said, but I handed her the phone anyway.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Son #Doors #America

I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Suicide #Growing Up #Cake

Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Unrequited Love #Color #Hug

When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter that a thousand snares were laid for us as soon as we left this moment. All that mattered was this: our noses touching, the softness of his mouth, the ache inside me.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Touching #Mouths #Matter

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Grace #Chords #Willing

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

#Happy Endings #Sometimes #Said

Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Country #Winter #Fate

sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Emo #Thoughtful #Creative