Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

Images barraged him. Connections darted electric. Veins. Roots. Forked lightning. Tributaries. Branches. Vines snaked around trees, herds of animals, drops of water running tog

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

People shouldnt have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynchs dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

When did you get so smart?He tapped his forehead. Brain transplant. They put in a whales. Im passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just cant get over this craving for krill. He shrugged. And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.

Theyre saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs. Tommy spins me again and grins at me. And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning.

whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you!

What do you mean Ronans a magical entity? Is he a demon? Because this all makes sense if so.

Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldnt let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

I don’t care to be pretty,” Blue shot back hotly, “I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

I’m not using any word,” Ronan said. The annoying thing about Ronan was always that he was angry when everyone else was calm, and calm when everyone else was angry. Because Blue was ready to bust a vein, his voice was utterly pacific. “I’m just telling you I’m not going. Maybe it’s wrong, maybe it’s not. My soul’s in enough peril as it is.

Why Anglo-Saxon history?” At the time it had struck the Gray Man as a foolish and unanswerable question. The things that drew him to that time period were surely unconscious and many-headed, diffused through his blood from a lifetime of influences.

It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.

The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadnt reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Coles wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love.So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpepers bitterness is growing palpable in this tiny town and I will NOT bury Graces body--and I am a boy waiting--for the heat and the fruitfulness of summer, waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl.

The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you cant hear it, you can feel it.

A symptom, Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. Youre both fools.