Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

They didnt even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldnt be deciding who deserved to live or die.

I couldnt think of anything that didnt sound trivial, so I just nodded.

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

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.

You have to take it off the table, Jeremy said, finally. Its always going to be an option, otherwise. Youre going to have to give it up and mean it, or itll always be your solution when things go bad.

I whisper like the sea in the horses ear.

Ronan, Noah said, I have a super bad feeling.Its called being dead, Ronan replied.

He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.Sorry, Persephone suggested.Pardon?She murmured, You should say sorry when you kill something.It took him a moment to realize she meant the rose. It was dying anyway.Dying and dead are different words.Shamed, Adam muttered an apology....

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girlFrom summer she is made my lovely summer girlId love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girlBut Im never warm enough for my lovely summer girlIts summer when she smiles, Im laughing like a childIts the summer of our lives; well contain it for a whileShe holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her handId be happy with this summer if its all we ever had.

My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

Adam mused, “Incorruptus. I never thought anyone would use that word to describe Lynch.” Ronan looked as pleased as a pit viper ever could.

Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldnt have been messing around with--Drugs?Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?No. But maybe ritualsDrugs might be better.

I slowly wipe my bloody hand a crossed my jacket and draw my switch blade from my pocket. I show it to him. Mutt regards it with contempt. How is it youre thinking youll stop e with that wee thing? The blade snaps out audibly. Mutt would not be the largest thing to die on the slender point of it. I dont think Ill stop you, I say. I think that you will cut my horse and then when you come out of that stall, I will use this to cut your heart out and hand it to you.

I see the pricks of blood the spear has left in his shoulder, and when Mutt slides the door shut, I spring on to Mutt and press my little switchblade to his great bulging neck. I can see his skin sucking in with his pulse. My knife lies right next to it. I thought you said to beat you on the sand, Mutt says. corr slams the wall of his stall with his hooves. My voice hisses out through a cage of my teeth. I also said ten drops of your blood for every drop of his. I want a pool of his blood around him like the one beneath Edana. I want him to lie against this wall and whimper like she does.I want him to know hell never stand again. I want him to remember David Princes death mask as he wears it for himself.

This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted.

Im just warning you, Neeve said. Watch out for the devil. When theres a god, theres always a legion of devils.

His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynchs laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway.

Unrequited love, Id say. Hed look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, what about it? and Id reply, its not your color. Pithy. Just to show him that Id noticed. Or maybe Id show myself to her and say, Guess Im not the only one who uses humans around here. And then Id summon some of Owains hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldnt fit just right into his arms. Shed be too short. Itd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75