“Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Because that's life. Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“What are you thinking about?" "Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is… — 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
“It was six years' worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“My patchwork life: quiet Sunday, coffee on Grace’s breath, the unfamiliar landscape of the lumpy new scar on my arm, the dangerous… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“If there was a great creator who had fashioned us in his own image, why, then, was life not made in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Why did you even come here, Cole?” I touched her chin. This place, this beautiful place, this girl, this beautiful girl, this… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments - and then roared to deafening life.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Tell me what it's like. The race." What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“If there was a great creator who had fashioned us in his own image, why, then, was more life not made in… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“It was the knowledge that I was surrounded by adluts with lives that I could never imagine living. It was the humming… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life; it was a borrowed life.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best… — 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
