Top 100 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
#1. I'm less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let's-Save-Erdas.
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#2. She'd been here long enough that all of her feelings had been replaced with high-end linoleum.
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#3. It wasn't the shooting that was hard, it was the getting away with it.
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#4. All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below ... perfect shadows that shift and glow ... perfect shadows that shift and grow ... " "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.
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#5. The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being. I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.
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#7. There's nothing to be sorry for," Beck said. "You didn't know any better. And Ulrik was the only one who liked those damn doritos. You did us all a favor.
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#8. Because I knew it wasn't for forever. Grace touched his hair and he bent his head to kiss her, quiet as a secret.
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#9. They continued standing there, looking like a pair of horror movie twins, one dark, one light.
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#10. 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.
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#11. But I'd known when I started this whole thing that we were different in this important way: Isabel had spent her teen years caring who touched her, and I hadn't.
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#12. They were headed back to Henrietta in the Pig, Gansey's furiously orange-red ancient Camaro. Gansey drove, because when it was the Camaro, he always drove. And the conversation was about Glendower, because when you were with Gansey, the conversation was almost always about Glendower.
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#13. You're looking for a god. Didn't you suspect that there was also a devil?
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#14. Declan paused then, sighing, as if the weight of the story was a tangible thing, and he needed to take a moment to regain his strength.
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#15. In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic ... "
Take me away from here, take me away from here.
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#16. I don't understand, Blue said. Something in her ached, though, like she did understand, but couldn't put words to it, wrap her thoughts around it. She felt like she was a part of a dream this place was having, or it was a part of a dream of hers.
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#17. For a fleeting moment, Adam could imagine it: the brocade curtains in decaying flames, the decorated consorts screaming from beneath the harpsichord, Ronan standing among it all saying Fuck Washington.
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#18. Luke glanced at me, his expression oddly light. "Shh, pretty girl. Let's enjoy ourselves for a bit before you start riddling again ".
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#20. Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.
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#22. He breathed in. He breathed out.
He forgot how to exhale when he wasn't at home.
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#23. It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.
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#24. Greenmantle took a swig of the wine directly fromt he bottle - when he'd selected it from the kitchen, he hadd thought it would look more aesthetically pathetic and desperate than carrying a solitary glass, and it did.
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#26. It wasn't that he expected to see the dead. All of the sources said that church watchers had to possess the second sight, and Gansey barely possessed first sight before he put his contacts in. He just hope for something.
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#27. I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I ... wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.
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#28. Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.
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#29. There was silence. It was a slick sort of silence, the sort that would make bystanders turn their head to note it, same as a loud laugh.
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#30. Sam: "You - you greatly overestimate my self-control."
Grace: "I'm not looking for self-control.
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#31. Now Blue looked promptly judgmental, which was about two ticks off from her ordinary expression and one tick off from Ronan's.
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#32. I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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#34. I didn't say I would start a yard."
"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.
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#35. Look, Adam said. He rubbed a finger over the dust of the back window. Next to a Blink-182 sticker was an Aglionby decal.
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#36. Blue draped an arm over his cold neck. There wasn't really anything to say to make being dead better.
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#37. Waitressing required patience, a fixed and convincing smile, and the ability to continuously turn the other cheek while keeping diet sodas topped up.
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#38. This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one
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#39. Cole said, "You're the only good thing I've ever done in my life." I replied, "I'm sorry I'm such a wreck.
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#40. I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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#41. In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year.
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#42. He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.
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#43. The water horses are hungry and wicked, vicious and beautiful, hating us and loving us.
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#44. It really is a helluva fiver-upper," Henry said, because someone had to say it. "I feel like they should possibly renovate this basement if they want to get a good sale price. Hardwood floors, update the doorknobs, maybe put the wall back.
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#45. She was dreaming. It was dark. Her eyes didn't get used to it; her heart did.
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#46. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.
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#47. Part of me wanted him to be awake, but the other part of me liked this quiet feeling of being both alone and not lonely.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Didn't you hear their music, my friend? Have you ever heard humans make music like that before? That must be what love is."
Behind me, Luke's voice was sympathetic. "It's just what it sounds like.
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#50. What if I implement a no-pets policy at the apartment?" "Well, hell, man," Ronan replied, with a savage smile, "you can't just throw out Noah like that.
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#51. I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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#52. We stood two feet apart. There was a buffer of history between us, and everything else pulling us together.
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#53. You can't force someone to love you-don't you get it? You can force them to kill for you. You can force them to be your subjects. You can't make someone love you!
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#54. He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road.
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#55. Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.
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#56. Tell me," Artemus whispered, " when you dream, do you dream of the stars?
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#57. Dream me the world. Something new for every night. Gansey said.
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#59. These tantalizing clues used to be enough to sustain him. Now it was only the grail he wanted. He felt grown old inside his young skin. I tire of wonders, he thought.
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#60. In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and a child. Dove, too, is a toy or possibly a dog as I lead her through the throngs of people.
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#61. I might never ride Corr again. I don't know who I am without him.
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#62. He was the sort of boy who didn't necessarily believe everything, but wanted to.
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#63. Sullivan hung at my shoulder. "Is she a student?"
"No." I brushed her hair out of her face. "Fix her."
He laughed, a little helplessly. "You have such faith in me.
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#64. You and I, we don't walk the lines. We just follow the echoes.
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#65. And it was not just a raven, Gansey saw. It was a tiny foundling, featherless mouth still a baby's smile, wings still days and nights and days away from flight. He wasn't sure he would want to touch something that looked so easily destroyable.
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#66. The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends
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#67. I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.
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#68. My wolf-sharpened sense of smell caught the scent of ice-cream cones, of asphalt, of churning ocean, of swirling beer, of first kisses and last kisses.
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#69. Disrespectful! My grandmothers are both dead."
"Well, Jesus. What did they die of?"
"Mom always said 'meddling.
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#70. What sort of exploring?" Shielding his eyes, Adam lifted his eyes to the sky. He thought he could hear Gansey coming. "Mountains. How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?
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#71. She hugged him and said, "Flowers and ravens," because she wanted him to know she remembered.
Then she hugged Matthew and said, "My love," because he was her favorite.
She said nothing at all to Declan, because he wasn't there.
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#72. I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.
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#73. I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
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#74. I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.
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#76. His mother's father had been a diplomat, an architect of fortunes; his father's father had been an architect, a diplomat of styles.
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#77. No homework. I got suspended," Blue replied.
"Get the fuck out," Ronan said, but with admiration. "Sargent, you asshole.
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#78. 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.
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#79. In her mind, Adam pressed that fist against her bedroom wall. So gently. Though every muscle was knotted, wanting to destroy it.
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#80. Crossly, Blue realized that Gansey had now called her Jane so often that it felt strange to hear him say her real name.
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#81. Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?"
He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.
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#82. In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.
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#83. 'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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#84. You guys have a death list?" Ronan broke in. "That is fucking dark. Am I on it?" "Some days, I wish," Blue said.
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#85. No one could deny that Gansey was a glorious portrait of youth, the well-tended product of a fortunate and moneyed pairing.
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#86. Normally I was good at sensing others' feelings, but with Grace, everything I thought I knew was clouded by what I wanted.
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#88. 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.
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#89. Desire and dread lay right next to each other in his heart, each sharpening the other.
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#90. Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing.
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#91. At the moment, he can tell he's being watched by a stranger, however, so he picks his feet up and tosses his mane just a little more than usual. I allow him his show. There are worse flaws than vanity in a horse.
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#93. The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy.
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#94. 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
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#95. He was just upset Dad liked you the best. I didn't care. Everybody has favorite things. Mom liked me best anyway.
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#96. She drove too fast, and she braked too late, but the thing about Isabel was that she always managed to pull herself up before she went over the edge.
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#97. Break me into pieces,
Small enough to fit
In the palm of your hand, baby.
I never thought that you would save me,
break a piece
for your friends
break a piece
just for luck
break a piece
sell it sell it
break me break me.
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#99. If Glendower had not saved Gansey's life, he did not know who to thank, or who to be, or how to live.
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