1,704 Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

Dreams are not the safest thing to build a life on.

Don’t panic. Are you sitting? You probably don’t need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch’s dreams, and his mother was just another one of them.

I’m quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

I don’t trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn’t mean I’m afraid of it.

It’s like thinking you’re going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.

You can hear a miracle a long way after dark. Miracles are very like radio waves in this way. Not many people realize that the ordinary radio wave and the extraordinary miracle have much in common. Left to their own devices, radio waves would not be audible for much more than forty or fifty miles. They travel on perfectly straight paths from their broadcast source, and because the Earth is round, it does not take them long to part ways with the ground and head out to the stars.

Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.

It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish’s nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.