Maggie Stiefvater

Author

1981-11-18

Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

• Eaton looks to the man next to him, who licks his lips before saying, "There are rules on paper and rules too big for paper."It takes me a moment to realize what this means, which is that there really is no rule against it, but they're not going to let me ride anyway. This is like when Gabe and I would play games when we were younger — as soon as I got close to winning, he would change the rules on me.And just like back then, the unfairness of it makes my chest burn.

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• The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.

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• You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.

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• You don't have to do this, Ronan said.There isn't anything else, man.There's reality.Kavinsky laughed the word. Reality! Reality's what other people dream for you.Reality's where other people are, Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms. What's here, K? Nothing! No one!Jus

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• Reality's what other people dream for you.

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• His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey

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• Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage.

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• The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

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• The world needs more love at first sight.

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• When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

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• What can't you bear?''This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. 'That house you and Finn are in. People talking. The fish - goddamn fish. I'll smell like them for the rest of my life. The horses. Everything. I can't do it any more.'. . . It feels like he's confessed that he's dying of a disease I've never heard of, with symptoms I can't see.

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• He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

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• This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby,— Calla said.

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• But I'm not dead, Blue pointed out.BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

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• His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

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• It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

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• Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

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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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• Please kiss that girl a million times.

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• I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing.

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