Drugs?"
"Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?"
"No. But maybe rituals."
"Drugs might be better.


Maggie Stiefvater

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Are you on drugs?”
“No.”
“Maybe you should be.…
RAINBOW ROWELL
No. This has to do with drugs."
My jaw fell open and I almost lost my toothbrush. "You're on dr...
DARYNDA JONES
I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs
I say, 'no.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD
Ohh and the harsh reality
Is they've made grace for you and me
Instead of saving you and me,...
LAURYN HILL
Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cau...
DOROTHY PARKER
Look them... look this black hoodies... they are having fun... why you don't try also?

(D...
DEYTH BANGER
The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I co...
ILONA ANDREWS
Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY
Let My worship be in the
heart that rejoices, for behold,
all acts of love and pleasure DOREEN VALIENTE
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
KURT VONNEGUT
Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushin...
RUSH LIMBAUGH
I don't do drugs, I am drugs
SALVADOR DALí
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
SALVADOR DALí
I don't take drugs: I am drugs.
SALVADOR DALí
I don't do drugs, I am drugs
SALVADOR DALí
People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

More Maggie Stiefvater

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn&#...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chic...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me wh...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I re...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to g...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a ma...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually tho...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were li...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in tru...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is bea...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and the...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people wh...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relations...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're re...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said.
Sam leaned d...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on somet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,
From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiabl...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adult...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Why can’t I do it?” [Isabel] asked….
“Do what?”
“Just forget about everything....
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I take it we're friends now," Henry said.
"We must be," Gansey replied. "Jane says it should b...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in c...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Cole,” I said, “do you think I’m lovable?”
“As in ‘cuddly and’?”
“As in ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."

Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the e...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling."
"It's called being dead," Ronan replied.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, ar...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people d...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
...she made her home in between the pages of books.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Please kiss that girl a million times.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different col...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
The water horses are hungry and wicked, vicious and beautiful, hating us and loving us.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I’m so full of an unnamed wanting that I can’t bear it.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I know you love her, but you can live without her.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Her expression is fierce and uncompromising, full of the intrepid bravery of a small boat in an unce...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
All I know is that when I whisper to dirt, my conversations are less than meaningful.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
What am I willing to risk for the possibility of getting what I want?
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It's less about wanting and more about being.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
...beer makes people deaf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
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
I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I am so, so alive.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Clutter is my natural habitat.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm,...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You two are too cute,” the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the cou...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah.
"Noah took a personal day....
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Noah had wandered down the aisle, but now he gleefully returned with a snow globe. He stood behind R...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.”
Grace: “I’m not looking for self...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I don't care to be pretty," Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort o...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. M...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I wasn't talking to you, Lynch. I need someone with a soul.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another nig...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed.
I misse...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You're assuming they would listen to me," I said.
Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Vol...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Because you know that's not how you want it to end. You know I'd love to have you with me, and it wi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your ent...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)
Your life, fearful and immense and blossomi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Most people had an acquired kind of beauty, they became better looking the longer you knew them and ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I walk through the seasons and always the birds
are singing and screaming and keening for love<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse
you're giving up your wings and inheriting my c...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fle...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted.<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she loved one of them most of all.

And thi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
One thousand ways to say good-bye
One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
We had this big grill at his house, and I remember, one night he said, 'Sam, tonight you're feeding ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pre...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I gro...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Danger...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
Losing myself to frigid regret<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, prom...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.'
She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just insi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Hope hurt more than the cold.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.”
Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial threa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
So, Grace, how's school?" I asked myself.
Dad nodded, eyes on the baby koala now struggling in...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Books are more real when you read them outside.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
What do you eat?"
"Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You'...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he me...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
The world needs more love at first sight.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Where do you live?"
Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving"
"That's not re...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go awa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I’m going in,” Gansey said as Ronan sat down on the step beside Adam. As Gansey shut the door be...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
What was a kiss without a kiss?"
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."

"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER