Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked….“Do what?”“Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are still problems and consequences. And going and--and--partying doesn’t make them go away. I feel like I’m the only sane person in the world. I don’t get why this whole world runs on stupidity.

Ronan didnt need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

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.

Behind him, he heard Ronan say, I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck off.

It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.

I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed.I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasnt underneath it

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

In the sea, Corr’s clumsiness will disappear, his weight cradled by the saltwater. I don’t want to say good-bye. I blink to clear my vision and reach up. I pull off his halter. The ocean is his love and now, finally, he’ll have it. I back out of the surf. There’s a thin, long wail. Corr takes a labored step away from the November sea. And another. He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

Im so tired I never want to wake up again. But Ive figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, its less about wanting, and more about being. I wonder after I say it if hell think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriends blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. I tried to stop her.

I didnt know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way id forgotten. Sort of like a splinter - not when you first get it under your skin, but the slow ache after it has been taken out.

I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl,I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl,But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl,It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child,It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a whileShe holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her handI’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.

If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. Youre not the best of us. Youre more than that. Youre better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. Id say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.

Cole, I said, Dont lose this number.

Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting.

Kissings a lot like laughing. If the jokes funny, it doesnt matter how long its been since you last heard one.