Quote

I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she'd just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.

Maggie Stiefvater

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Way
Image
Pictured
Picture
Heathen
Worked
Sacrificed
Tried
Campus
Class
Forest
Guy
Failed
Frolicking
Around
Forests
Glade
Better
Anywhere
Miserably

More quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

Image
she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke)
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
What about us? Can i see you again? You can say no. You'd crush all my hopes and dreams, but it's an option.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. For crying out loud, he said. It's a racoon. Poor thing, I said. It could be a rabid baby-killer, Cole told me primly. Shut up, Sam said pleasantly.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
she waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
It's for personal reasons, I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet. You walk into a room and you realize something's out of place before you've bothered to properly look. I felt that happening now. Sam's thoughts on page 304 of Linger.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being. I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Death smells like birthday cake.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be otherwise. And thats what fascinates me. Duke- Lament
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Boys like him didn't die they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
You're getting your weird all over me.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look. Don't cry. You're not that girl either.' 'Oh yeah? What girl am I?' 'I'll let you know when I figure it out. Just don't cry.
Maggie Stiefvater