1,704 Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

I'm sorry no one saved you.

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

It became a game, a challenge, to realise the exact moment that the predictions came true.

a life is measured by moments like these

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

Do you have darkness inside you?""Yes,""And do you want to be rid of it?"This is a harder question to answer than one might think at first blush. Almost no one would think it's correct to answer this question with a no, but the truth is that we men and women often hate to be rid of the familiar, and sometimes, our darkness is the thing we know the best.

You're like me. We're not really like the others. [...] We're really better in our own company, Persephone said. It makes it hard sometimes, for others, when they can't understand us.

Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75

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.