Top 25 Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater of 678 - Page 4

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

Maggie Stiefvater

Reality, Blood, Tests

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.350, Scholastic Inc.

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, Im aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a readers emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

Maggie Stiefvater

Focus, Elements, Emotion

Calla readjusted, wrapping the silk around her other thigh instead. "Which one's he again? The pretty one?" Blue and Gansey exchanged a look. Blue's look said, I'm so, so sorry. Gansey's said, Am I the pretty one?

Maggie Stiefvater

Sorry, Blue, Looks

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

Maggie Stiefvater

Coffee, Blue, Carbon Footprint

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

He was clearly related to Declan: same nose, same dark eyebrows, same phenomenal teeth. But there was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this Lynch brother. This was not a rattlesnake hidden in the grass, but a deadly coral snake striped with warning colors. Everything about him was a warning: If this snake bit you, you had no one to blame but yourself.

Maggie Stiefvater

Brother, Dark, Color

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

Maggie Stiefvater

Night, Tree, Desire

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.19, Scholastic Inc.

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

Long Distance Relationship, Grief, Loss

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.344, Scholastic Inc.

That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human. Delia: Why? Faerie: Untold delights and youth forever. Delia: I'm holding out for a better offer. Ta.

Maggie Stiefvater

Mother, Forever, Delight

Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.129, North Star Editions, Inc.

Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow. This was going to be a night.

Maggie Stiefvater

Night, Fire, Climbing

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.190, Scholastic Inc.

Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head fondly before continuing down the aisle. She didn't seem to care that he was fifteen, which was all right, because he didn't, either. Both Ronan and Declan observed this interaction with the pleased expressions of parents watching their prodigy at work.

Maggie Stiefvater

Expression, Parent, Looks

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

Maggie Stiefvater

Irritation, Want, Language

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sexy, Night, Light

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.

Maggie Stiefvater

Dream, Brother, Liars

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.385, Scholastic Inc.

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

Maggie Stiefvater

Book, Matter, Good Book

Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.

Maggie Stiefvater

Guy, Different, Three

Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.

My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

Maggie Stiefvater

Mother, Father, Trying

Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.

Maggie Stiefvater

Moving, Book, Writing

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.

Maggie Stiefvater

Suicidal, Risk, Needs

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

Maggie Stiefvater

Song, Writing, Looks

Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.551, Scholastic Inc.

I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustang up my arm. He was laughing to himself, hushed and infectious, as if there was still any reason to be quite.

Maggie Stiefvater

Laughing, Skins, Arms

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.257, Scholastic UK

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

Maggie Stiefvater

Beautiful, Distraction, Wanted

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.245, Scholastic UK

Why did everything feel like saying good-bye?

Maggie Stiefvater

Bye, Good Bye, Saying Good Bye

Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.826, Scholastic Inc.

She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.

Maggie Stiefvater

Girl, Men, Hands

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater

Stupid, Obstacles, Sometimes

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.51, Scholastic UK

This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from the friction of the saddle. My arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand. I am so, so alive.

Maggie Stiefvater

Beach, Horse, Sleep

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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