Quotes
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Maggie Stiefvater
"Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away." --
Maggie Stiefvater
#Feet Quotes
#Sight Quotes
#Talking Quotes
“Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in life. We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel? The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live… in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’”
“Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.”
“Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.”
“I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.”
“I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.”
“We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.”
“In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.”
“Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.”