Maggie Stiefvater Quote #1
(Malory, unhopeful: I don't suppose you have any tea? Jesse: DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING? Malory: Oh, sweet heavens!)
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #2
- You're going to have to be brave.
- I'm always brave.
- Braver than that.Maggie Stiefvater Quote #3
...all she could think was 'This is how close a kiss is'. It felt every bit as dangerous as she'd imagined.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #4
...He kissed me again, farther up my neck, and I pushed him back against the wall.
My mind searched for the logical thought, a rational life raft before I drowned in wanting to hiss him. I managed, We've only met a few days ago. We don't know each other.
Luke released me. How long does it take to know someone?
I didn't know. A month? A few months? It sounded stupid to quantify it, especially when I didn't want to believe my own reasoning. But I couldn't just go kissing someone I knew nothing about-- it went against everything I'd ever been told. So why was it so hard to say no?
He took my fingers, playing with them in between his own. I'll wait. He looked so good in the half-light under the trees, his light eyes nearly glowing against his shadowed skin. It was useless.
I don't want you to. I whispered the words, and before I'd even finished saying them, his mouth was on mine and I was melting under his lips.Maggie Stiefvater Quote #5
Is this how we make our way to death? Blue wondered. A stumbling fade-out instead of a self-aware finale?
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #6
You've had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can't stand on your own legs?
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[...] Aglionby boys, who often thought rudeness was a louder sort of flirting.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #8
Adam translated, Not death, but his brother, sleep.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #9
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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Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, Scio quid hoc est. As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said Scio quid estis vos. He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it.
Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric.
The euphoria wore off long before the shame did.
He was never sleeping again.Maggie Stiefvater Quote #11
Adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome. Even in a group, he was slowly perfecting the skill of holding himself separate. It was easier than one might expect; the others allowed him to do it.
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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 strange dirty of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for Glendower with them.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #13
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!Maggie Stiefvater Quote #14
Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan’s lack of heat tolerance. “I didn’t say anything.” “Whatever, man,” Ronan replied. “I know that face. You were born in hell, you’re used to it.
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After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.
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After you were bitten, I knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so I could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt. A chilly gust of wind lifter his hair and sent a shower of golden leaves glimmering down around him. He spred out his arms, letting them fall into his hands. He looked like a dark angel in an eternal autumn wood. Did you know you get one happy day for everyone you catch?
I didn't know what he meant, even after he opened his fist to show me the quivering leaves crumpled in his palm.
One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.
I watched the egdes of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze.How long did you wait?
It would have been romantic if hr'd had the courage to look into my face to say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boots in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. I haven't stopped.
And I should've said something romantic too, but i didn't have the courage, either. So instead, I watched the shy way he was chewing his lip and studying the leaves, and said, That must've been very borring.Maggie Stiefvater Quote #17
All food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #18
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.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #19
And so you know what I did with those sad things? I put them in boxes. I put the sad things in the boxes in my head, and I closed them up and I put tape on them and I stacked them up in the corner and threw a blanket over them.
Braintape?Maggie Stiefvater Quote #20
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.
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Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.
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Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #23
As I pulled aside the linen curtain to the back room, I heard the front door open again. If it was Christina returning to make a second effort at my leggings, I was going to be forced to get loud, and I didn't like getting loud.
But it wasn't Christina I heard at the front of the store.
Instead, a very familiar voice said, No, no, I'm looking for something very particular. Oh, wait, I just saw it.
I turned around.
Cole St. Clair smiled lazily at me.
I gave so many damns at once that it actually hurt.Maggie Stiefvater Quote #24
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.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #25
As the sun shines low and red across the water, I wade into the ocean. The water is still high and brown and murky with the memory of the storm, so if there’s something below it, I won’t know it. But that’s part of this, the not knowing. The surrender to the possibilities beneath the surface. It wasn’t the ocean that killed my father, in the end. The water is so cold that my feet go numb almost at once. I stretch my arms out to either side of me and close my eyes. I listen to the sound of water hitting water. The raucous cries of the terns and the guillemots in the rocks of the shore, the piercing, hoarse questions of the gulls above me. I smell seaweed and fish and the dusky scent of the nesting birds onshore. Salt coats my lips, crusts my eyelashes. I feel the cold press against my body. The sand shifts and sucks out from under my feet in the tide. I’m perfectly still. The sun is red behind my eyelids. The ocean will not shift me and the cold will not take me.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #26
Because it wasn't merely that the trees were speaking to them. It was that the trees themselves were sentient beings, capable of watching their movements. Was it only the trees in this strange wood, or did every tree observe their movements? Had they always been trying to speak to them? There was no way of knowing, either, if the trees were good of bad, if they lived or hatred humans, if they had principles or compassion. They were like aliens, Gansey thought. Aliens that we have treated very badly for a very long time.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #27
Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.
Maggie Stiefvater Quote #28
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 Quote #29
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.Maggie Stiefvater Quote #30
Blue remained secretly hopeful that, somewhere out there in the world, there were other odd people like her.
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