Parenting Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Don’t psychoanalyze me,” her mother said. “I already have. And I say again, ‘ah.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

— Maggie Stiefvater

My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for…

— Maggie Stiefvater

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

“Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“I was just dreaming of the day you were born,” Niall said, “Ronan.” He wiped the blood on his forehead to show…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

“Every year, Blue and her mother, Maura, had come to the same place, and every year it was chilly. But this year,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

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

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

“Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making sure…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“While I pressed the tissue to my face, Beck said, “Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empty boxes…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

— Maggie Stiefvater

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

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

“Did other people’s mothers vanish into holes in the ground during their midlife crises?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

“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