Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

Food, I suggested. Sleep. Thats what I need. To get the hell away from here.Cole frowned at me, as if Id suggested ducks and yoga.

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.

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.

- Youre going to have to be brave.- Im always brave.- Braver than that.

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when theyre twenty-eight.

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

thats because its from the night, and the night keeps secrets

Then she called Gansey.It rang twice, three times, and then: Hello?He sounded boyish and ordinary. Blue asked, Did I wake you up?She heard Gansey fumble for and scrape up his wireframes.No, he lied, I was awake.I called you by accident anyway. I meant to call Congress, but your number was one off.Oh?Yeah, because yours has 6-6-5 in it. She paused. Get it?Oh, you.6-6-5. One number different. Get it?Yeah, I got it.

Because Niall Lynch was the biggest liar of them all, and he’d stuffed all of that into his eldest son. There was not much difference between a lie and a secret.

Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency.

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.

Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. Were keepers or kept from, players or played.

All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.

Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.

Piper’s lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident.

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.

sloughing my skin / escaping its grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .