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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The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy.

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Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

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As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that ancient Anglo-Saxons had graciously passed on to him. Everything about him suggested valor and power an...

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People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.

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Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.

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He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

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

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Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. And it was a str...

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His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

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Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey. He was everything Gansey wished he could be: wise and brave, sure of his path, touched by the supernatural, respected by all, surviv...

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Blue remained secretly hopeful that, somewhere out there in the world, there were other odd people like her.

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If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

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We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again." "This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.

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Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

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In her small voice, Persephone said, "I have nothing to add." After a moment of consideration, she added, however, "If you are going to punch someone, don't put your thumb inside your fist. It would be a shame to break it.

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Please just tell me where you are. His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain.

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Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his...

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...all she could think was 'This is how close a kiss is'. It felt every bit as dangerous as she'd imagined.

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Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.

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The poor are sad they're poor, Adam had once mused, and turns out the rich are sad they're rich.

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Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied.

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Author Bio

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