1,704 Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

I couldn’t imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.

That was pretty much all you needed to know about Cole, right there. He saw something he didn’t quite understand, liked it, and took it to be his.

I always listen to you. Except when I don’t.

Luke’, I said, and immediately added, ‘My boyfriend.’ My supernatural, doomed, gorgeous, killer boyfriend.

It’s only because I’ve lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he’s not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there’s nothing for it but to wait.

Here was a thing she wanted: to taste vanilla without crying. Here was a thing she feared: that the prettiest thing about her was her exterior.

She had still been learning how to live with the hard truth that the most interesting parts of her thoughts usually got left behind when she tried to put them into words.

If that moment had been a real thing, it would’ve been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.

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.