Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

You dont have to do this, Ronan said.There isnt anything else, man.Theres reality.Kavinsky laughed the word. Reality! Realitys what other people dream for you.Realitys where other people are, Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms. Whats here, K? Nothing! No one!Jus

You and I both know that love is for children, he said. Were adults. Compatibility is for adults.Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car, Teresa replied. Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.

The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadnt been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.

Eaton looks to the man next to him, who licks his lips before saying, “There are rules on paper and rules too big for paper.”It takes me a moment to realize what this means, which is that there really is no rule against it, but they’re not going to let me ride anyway. This is like when Gabe and I would play games when we were younger — as soon as I got close to winning, he would change the rules on me.And just like back then, the unfairness of it makes my chest burn.

Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.

A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didnt change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they werent all the truth.

His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an ice-covered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.

The future was getting here faster than Id expected.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

They didnt need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

I dont trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesnt mean Im afraid of it.

Hurry up, before theres no more night left.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

I said uselessly, Sam, dont go.Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember its me. Please.

You really didnt see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasnt it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.

When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.

I take it were friends now, Henry said. We must be, Gansey replied. Jane says it should be so.It should be so, Blue agreed.

Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere.

Violence was a disease Gansey didnt think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.