I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sean looks at me then, his eyes bright, in a way that makes me feel out of sorts. I glare back. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The way Gansey saw it was this: If you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world… — 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
He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Because you know that's not how you want it to end. You know I'd love to have you with me, and it… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just… — 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
Don't take this the wrong way," Blue replied. Her cheeks felt a little warm, but she was well into this conversation and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Blue." It was Ronan's voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their head towards him. His head was cocked… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
[I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
"It's OK," Puck says. She has a quick way of hiding her disappointment. If you're not looking for it, she's put it… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way."… — 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
![“[I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my lungs were made of lead. Like I can't even think about starting to care about anything. Like I either wish that they were all dead, or I was, because I can't stand the pull of all that…” quote by Maggie Stiefvater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b6/maggie-stiefvater-76_because-i-can_i-t-just-makes-me-tired-even-thinking-ab_980583.jpg)
