Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

About Maggie Stiefvater:

Maggie Stiefvater is an American writer of young-adult fiction, especially urban fantasy. She currently lives in Virginia.
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History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it.

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So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

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All food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious.

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Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.

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His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew ...

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Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Persephone said. "The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical.

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Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

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They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything hadn't seen anyone as rich as the Aglionby boys. They were untouchable, immune to life's troubles. Only death couldn't be swiped away by a credit card.

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Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

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Fuck the past. This was the present.

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Reality's what other people dream for you.

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Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or play...

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All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.

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Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.

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Time's not a line. It's a circle or a figure eight or a goddamn Slinky. If you can believe that, I don't know why you can't believe that someone might be able to glimpse something farther along the Slinky.

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It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old.

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Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.

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Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue’s wonder made it holy.

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Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.

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Was it okay? Adam had turned down so many offers of help from Gansey. Money for school, money for food, money for rent. Pity and charity, Adam had thought. For so long, he'd wanted Gansey to see him as an equal, but it was possible that all this time...

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(Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?" Malory: "Oh, sweet heavens!")

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Author Bio

  • NameMaggie Stiefvater
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornNovember 18, 1981
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist