Top 25 Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater of 678 - Page 27

Do you feel better?” I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me. “Yes,” he said. He was still a terrible liar. “Good,” I said. I was still a fantastic one.

Do you feel better?” I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me. “Yes,” he said. He was still a terrible liar. “Good,” I said. I was still a fantastic one.

Maggie Stiefvater

Liars, Feel Better, Doors

Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.530, Scholastic Inc.

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

Fear, Ocean, Mean

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

Maggie Stiefvater

Ambition, Thinking, Want Something

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.

Maggie Stiefvater

Silence, Pages, Awful

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

Maggie Stiefvater

Running, Risk, Monsters

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.98, Scholastic UK

I'm already waiting when Puck gets to the top of the cliffs. I'm not the only one; about two dozen race tourists have made perches out of rocks, watching Corr and me as closely as they dare. Puck glares at them all, searing enough that some of them flinch in surprise. I'm not certain what to expect from her after last night. I don't know how to address her. I don't know what she expects from me or what I expect from me. What I get is a wordless hello and a November cake in my hand.

Maggie Stiefvater

Night, Two, Race

There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve," Neeve said. "Either you're his true love . . . or you killed him.

Maggie Stiefvater

Two, Spirit, Reason

"The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

My father said once that if I didn't have my mother's ginger hair, I wouldn't blush or curse as easily. Which I though was unfair. I hardly ever curse or blush, even though I've had plenty of days that required both.

Maggie Stiefvater

Mother, Father, Hair

When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.

Maggie Stiefvater

Running, Moving, Islands

Something tells me my spit wouldn't mean as much to Corr as yours would." There's a long Pause before Sean speaks. He says, "Maybe not yet." Yet! I don't think I've ever heard such a fine word before.

Maggie Stiefvater

Mean, Thinking, Long

Finn never looks more excited - he just gets faster. Finns are generally slow-moving creatures.

Maggie Stiefvater

Moving, Looks, Excited

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.158, Scholastic UK

He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had something to do with the knowledge that his parents’ house wasn’t truly home anymore — if it had ever been — and something to do with the realization that they hadn’t changed; he had.

Maggie Stiefvater

Moving, Home, Heart

Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.247, Scholastic Inc.

More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.

Maggie Stiefvater

Dark, Lines, Definitions

Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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 own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.

Maggie Stiefvater

Moving, Miracle, Survival

Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.315, Scholastic Inc.

Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

Maggie Stiefvater

Eye, His Eyes, Gansey

Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

Clutter is my natural habitat.

Maggie Stiefvater

Habitat, Natural, Clutter

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.132, Scholastic UK

I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.

Maggie Stiefvater

Dark, Curves, Shapes

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

You two are a strange pair. You are a pair, aren't you?" "We're in training.

Maggie Stiefvater

Two, Training, Pairs

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.369, Scholastic UK

He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sea, Return, Return To Me

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.372, Scholastic UK

we're watchers of this world aren't we? not players

Maggie Stiefvater

Player, World, This World

Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.104, North Star Editions, Inc.

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

Maggie Stiefvater

Perfect, Guy, Romance

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I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

Maggie Stiefvater

Past, People, Perception

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I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.

Maggie Stiefvater

Brother, Boys, Years

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I don't care for werewolves. They're all right, I guess, if you go for the shedding, savaging the country-side thing. But they're not very scary nor very sexy and so what's the point?

Maggie Stiefvater

Sexy, Country, Scary

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