“Don’t psychoanalyze me,” her mother said. “I already have. And I say again, ‘ah.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I've grown up alongside Corr. My father rode him and my father lost him, and then I found him again. He's the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Did other people’s mothers vanish into holes in the ground during their midlife crises?” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Ronan’s voice was different when he spoke to either his mother or Matthew. It was Ronan, unperformed. No. Ronan, unprotected. This tone… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Through his fingers he threaded one of the flyaway hairs by her cheek. “My mother used to say, ‘Don’t throw compliments away,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie:… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Her mother’s voice was coming from the house’s single shared bathroom, and when Blue got there, she found her mother, Calla, and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die." "Ah," said Calla, in a very,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Ronan’s voice was different when he spoke to either his mother or Matthew. It was Ronan, unperformed. No. Ronan, unprotected. This tone… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Ronan was defending me.” Adam’s mouth was dry as the dirt around them. The officer’s expression focused on him as he went… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Blue had once intercepted a set of e-mails on her mother’s computer; one of Maura’s male clients had ardently begged Maura to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Every year, Blue and her mother, Maura, had come to the same place, and every year it was chilly. But this year,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“You just don't want me to like them as well as I do because... you're trying to save me from being hurt?… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I was just dreaming of the day you were born,” Niall said, “Ronan.” He wiped the blood on his forehead to show… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“From his father, Gansey had gotten a head for logic, an affection for research, and a trust fund the size of most… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“While I pressed the tissue to my face, Beck said, “Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empty boxes… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Gansey despised raising his voice (in his head, his mother said, People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper), but… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“My mother used to say, ‘Don’t throw compliments away, so long as they’re free.’” His face was very earnest. “That one wasn’t… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
My father said once that if I didn't have my mother's ginger hair, I wouldn't blush or curse as easily. Which I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I probably can’t stop you from meeting him anyway,” Maura said. “I mean, if Neeve is right about why you saw him.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“It’s so dark that I can hear the sea better than I can see it. Shhhhh, Shhhhh, it says, like I’m a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“My brain instantly traveled back to my parents’ dining room table. I’d sat there every morning with my brain-storming notebook—my father’s idea—and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I’m good,” she replied. “But thanks. My mother didn’t raise me to be violent.” “Neither,” observed the Gray Man, “did mine.” He… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“Once upon a time, there lived a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really the story was:… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the whole. We… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“At least when he was at Aglionby he could turn over his papers to see the grades, concrete proof of his success at something.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“That's the one." In Puck Connolly's custody. That might be the last I see of that jacket.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?” ”I did this time didn’t I?” “Say yes.” “Yes. Conditionally yes.”…... …”What… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustang up my arm.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
