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Maggie Stiefvater Quotes: 35

You're beautiful and sad,"I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again."For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you.
Shiver
It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.
Shiver
You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
Shiver
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.
The Dream Thieves
If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
The Raven Boys
Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life,"Gansey replied.
The Raven Boys
Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well." "And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?"I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That,"he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.
Shiver
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.
The Raven Boys
right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
Shiver
His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.
Shiver
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.
Linger
Fate,"Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.
The Raven Boys
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.
Shiver
I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.Too close.I couldn't stay away.
Shiver
Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
The Raven Boys
What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.
Linger
Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.
Linger
Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.
Forever
I am so, so alive.
The Scorpio Races
In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.
Forever
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.
Linger
I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
Forever
Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper
Linger
I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.
Forever
his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.
Shiver
Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.
The Scorpio Races
I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?
The Scorpio Races
I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.
Forever
She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.
Shiver
Did you get notes for me?" "No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
The Raven Boys
Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!
The Dream Thieves
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.
Linger
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.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.
Linger