Top 100 Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
#1. What are you thinking about?"
"Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.
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#2. Where are Sam and Grace?"
"Ringo left in his car a few hours ago. He must've taken Grace with him. I don't know where they went."
"You didn't ask?"
"We're not married" Cole said, and added, in a more humble tone, "yet".
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#3. Finn never looks more excited - he just gets faster. Finns are generally slow-moving creatures.
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#4. Oh my God. What in - "
I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked.
"Mom," Isabel snapped, interrupting. "Do you mind not staring? It's totally perv.
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#5. It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!
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#6. When the girl asked Gansey, he just gazed at her for a minute too long, not realizing he was being rude until too late. This was so far from Richard Gansey's scene that he had no words at all.
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#7. Every parting felt like it would be the last, and so every return was like a miracle.
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#8. People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.
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#9. Is this how we make our way to death? Blue wondered. A stumbling fade-out instead of a self-aware finale?
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#11. Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.
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#13. Ronan, taking in Blue's posture and Gansey below, observed, "If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye."
Gansey moved to the opposite side of the bed with surprising swiftness, glancing at Adam and away again as quickly.
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#14. In and out' Ronan repeated. It didn't sound like a dream he'd ever had.
'Like a motherfucking thief.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.
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#17. She'd been here long enough that all of her feelings had been replaced with high-end linoleum.
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#18. To a dream, perhaps a nightmare was simply an unpleasant acquaintance rather than anything uncanny.
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#19. We're not doing anything today, obviously," Adam said. "Do you want to hang out?" Blue looked around for a couch. It would be easier to hang out with a couch.
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#20. When does it happen?"
"It already has," Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. "And it hasn't yet. Time' circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others.
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#21. A frightening menagerie, my emotions are
Too many and varied to number
Like creatures they crawl and they fly above
Tearing my body asunder.
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#22. Ah, hissed Neeve, plump but strangely elegant as she sat beside Blue on the wall. Blue was struck again, as she had been struck the first time she'd met Neeve, by her oddly lovely hands. Chubby wrists led to soft, child-like palms and slender fingers with oval nails.
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#23. She just liked the name, because, for a five-foot-tall girl, pygmy tyrant sounded like a career. All
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#24. "Even Dwarfs Started Small," Calla replied immediately. "In the original German: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen."
Maura winced, though Blue couldn't tell if it was at the movie or at Calla's accent.
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#26. It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.
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#27. (A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.
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#28. My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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#29. In that formless place, he found himself intensely grateful for Ronan and Adam waiting outside for him, for Blue and her family, for Noah and for Malory. He was so grateful to have found all of them, finally.
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#30. 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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#31. I walk through the seasons and always the birds
are singing and screaming and keening for love
When you're with me it seems so absurd
that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.
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#33. Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.
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#35. She had listened to the phone conversation and following discussion with great interest. Helen very much enjoyed climbing down into other people's lives and muddling around there with a pail and a shovel and possibly one of those old-fashioned striped bathing suits with the legs and arms.
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#36. Gabe says you make a mean chicken."
Finn, who is sitting by the fireplace making smoke, comments for the first time. "Well, she certainly doesn't make a nice one.
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#37. I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and they didn't seem to make check boxes for whatever it was that I had grown up into. I definitely explore that a lot in my novels.
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#38. 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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#39. He was the worst decision she'd made so far, but she couldn't keep from making it again and again.
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#40. It was easy to read him as shy or uncertain, she thought, but he really wasn't either.
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#42. Every time I can't tell where someone's calling me from in a room and every time I accidentally start to put my earbuds in both ears I think about you.
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#44. In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper'.
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#45. Our hearts must grow resolute, our courage more valiant, our spirits must be great, though our strength grows less.
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#47. It wasn't the shooting that was hard, it was the getting away with it.
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#48. Jesus," Gansey said. "I can't take this."
"Worry is weakness, king," Gwenllian piped up.
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#49. He was awake enough to wonder if he'd been making bad decisions for his entire life. If he'd been a bad decision, himself, even before he was born.
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#50. Have another tangerine as he begins to expound upon how only in the unpolluted air can man truly be free to contemplate the complexities of existence. I
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#51. I'm less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let's-Save-Erdas.
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#52. Just because it tantrums doesn't mean it's more right than you.
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#53. Noah appeared beside Blue. He looked joyful and adoring, like a Labrador retriever.
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#54. Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all of him.
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#56. It was becoming a nightmare. Ronan could hear the night horrors coming, in love with his blood and his sadness.
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#57. I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.
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#58. The hallway to overflowing, somehow, the three of them, loud and male and so comfortable with one another that they allowed no one else to be comfortable with
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#59. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was normal. So
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#60. But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us."
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied, "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told."
Blue said, "Okay.
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#61. It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.
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#62. You're my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.
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#63. 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.
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#64. Once upon a time, there lived a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really the story was: Once upon a time, there lived a boy, and his fear ate him alive.
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#65. I couldn't decide if he was four or nine or twelve. I had no idea of the specifics of children. He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn doorknobs.
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#66. As a pale-skinned, dark-haired Celtic sort, he didn't care for the heat.
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#67. Ronan's smile cut his face, but he looked kinder than Blue had ever seen him, like the raven in his hand was his heart, finally laid bare.
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#68. Well, this was disappointing. I supposed I had jumped to a rather large conclusion, with the help of my research. It just went to show that Wikipedia was a liar and Google a whore.
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#69. As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, "I know why you're mad."
Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. "Tell me then, prophet."
Noah said, "It's not my job to tell other people's secrets.
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#70. The sign outside the juice store had said CHANGE YOUR FUTURE WITH SUNSHINE IN A GLASS. My future was looking pretty great already, and I couldn't wait to see what would happen if I added orange juice to it.
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#71. In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
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#72. 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.
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#74. The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs.
"Say something," Gansey said.
"That bell."
"Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey.
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#75. He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else's charcoal grill.
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#76. I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.
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#78. Of all the things I found puzzling about Sam, this one was always the most puzzling: his sudden, self-deprecating mood swings ... Was this what it meant to be creative?
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#79. Puck Connolly," says the old man. "Don't be looking at him like that." Such a statement is too tantalizing to ignore. "Who is he?" "Lord, that's Sean Kendrick,
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#80. If you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.
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#83. I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger
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#84. Her eyes on my eyes. I was tearing apart, inside and outside.
Her life.
My life.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow.
This was going to be a night.
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#87. He was struck by what a glorious and fearless animal Blue Sargent was, and he made a mental note to tell her that very thing, if she didn't drown getting whatever the second thing was.
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#88. No one in the house ever really doubted that Blue was destined to kill her true love with a kiss.
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#89. The Boy should watch where he's going," she
said.
"Rachel should not manifest in doorways," I
replied.
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#90. People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper), but
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#91. What do we do now?" Gansey asked.
From the other room, Calla bellowed, "GO BUY US PIZZA. WITH EXTRA CHEESE, RICHIE RICH."
Blue said, "I think she's starting to like you.
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#92. I didn't understand how someone could be God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you."
- Sam Roth
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#93. There he is," Henry said. "Toga party tonight, Richard, at Litchfield House. You should bring your boys and your child bride.
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#94. I laughed out loud, no one to hear me but the audience of snowflakes. I leaped off the sidewalk, into the bank of greying snow. I was drunk with the reality of my human body.
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#97. Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan's lack of heat tolerance. "I didn't say anything." "Whatever, man," Ronan replied. "I know that face. You were born in hell, you're used to it.
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#98. Blue was filled with frustration that her life was so clearly demarcated.
Things that were not enough, but that she could have.
Things that were something more, that she couldn't.
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#99. I'm very busy, aunt, Henry replied, although he was clearly watching video game walk-throughs in his underwear.
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#100. He wasn't sure what was worse: leaving or the anticipation of leaving.
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