I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it. — Maggie Stiefvater Afraid Copy Share Image
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me . — Maggie Stiefvater Escaping Copy Share Image
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. — Maggie Stiefvater Happiness Copy Share Image
“Adam could not very well judge Ronan for dreaming so vastly; Adam was also trading in magic he didn’t understand perfectly.” — Maggie Stiefvater Magic Didn Copy Share Image
I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal? — Maggie Stiefvater Careless Copy Share Image
Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants. — Maggie Stiefvater Astronomy Copy Share Image
“It looked like a place old ladies might go to die and remain undiscovered until the neighbors noticed a strange smell.” — Maggie Stiefvater Old Ladies Copy Share Image
Grace reached over and began stroking her fingers through my hair. I closed my eyes and let her drive me crazy. — Maggie Stiefvater Crazy Copy Share Image
I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me." Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen. "Were you talking to… — Maggie Stiefvater Appreciate Copy Share Image
“Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but… — Maggie Stiefvater Changed Place Copy Share Image
“recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big… — Maggie Stiefvater Bigs Copy Share Image
“What an idiot I was. This perfect moment, this perfect kiss, and I was crying. There was so much wrong with me.… — Maggie Stiefvater Idiot Copy Share Image
I wasn’t sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I… — Maggie Stiefvater Bed Copy Share Image
“Beatriz took Pete’s hand and held his arm still. Then she put her thumb right on the inside of his elbow. It… — Maggie Stiefvater Held Arm Copy Share Image
I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers,… — Maggie Stiefvater Fine Copy Share Image
“It was as if I had thought all along I was a complete picture, and Sam had revealed that I was a… — Maggie Stiefvater Fitting together Copy Share Image
He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days.… — Maggie Stiefvater Changed Copy Share Image
This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought… — Maggie Stiefvater Ballads 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 Battle Copy Share Image
“When she turned fifteen, Blue concluded that her mother’s tarot cards were just a pack of playing cards and that the dreams… — Maggie Stiefvater Favorite song Copy Share Image
I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad… — Maggie Stiefvater Admitting Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want… — Maggie Stiefvater Beans Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, you are blue,' Malory agreed. 'How perceptive you are. What was the name? Jane? This is the lady I spoke… — Maggie Stiefvater Blue Said Copy Share Image
“I don’t hear things like that,” Blue said, a little surprised Neeve wasn’t already aware. In Blue’s intensely clairvoyant family, she was… — Maggie Stiefvater Communication Copy Share Image
“It sure is ugly.” “Ugly, never hurt a thing.” I scoffed. “Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It’s just that pretty hurts… — Maggie Stiefvater Cole st clair Copy Share Image
I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and… — Maggie Stiefvater Bigger Copy Share Image
“Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?” — Maggie Stiefvater Absence Copy Share Image
“Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling." "It's called being dead," Ronan replied.” — Maggie Stiefvater Bad feelings Copy Share Image
“In fact, after that ride across Amaya, he still had blisters in all kinds of places where blisters shouldn’t be.” — Maggie Stiefvater Blisters Copy Share Image
“in a teal polo shirt could perish of anything other than heart disease at age eighty-six, possibly at a polo match.” — Maggie Stiefvater Heart disease Copy Share Image
Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when… — Maggie Stiefvater Arms Copy Share Image
“In and out' Ronan repeated. It didn't sound like a dream he'd ever had. 'Like a motherfucking thief.” — Maggie Stiefvater Adam Copy Share Image
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater Dad Copy Share Image
“She tossed the knife into the sink, where it would remain until it died.” — Maggie Stiefvater Knife Copy Share Image
“She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it,… — Maggie Stiefvater Eccentric Copy Share Image
“A raven, of all the birds for Ronan to turn up with. Gansey didn’t believe in coincidences.” — Maggie Stiefvater Birds Copy Share Image
“It suddenly seemed like a lonesome thing to be buried a sea away from your home, like being shot off into space.” — Maggie Stiefvater Buried Copy Share Image
“Some feelings are rooted too strongly in the body to exist without it, and this one, desire, is one of them.” — Maggie Stiefvater Desire Copy Share Image
It wasn’t a touch that said I need more. It was a touch that said I want this. — Maggie Stiefvater Needs Copy Share Image
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft. — Maggie Stiefvater Book Copy Share Image