Quote

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

Maggie Stiefvater

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Stone
Lack
Stones
Conversation
Sound
Amplified
Around
Echo
Footsteps
Echoes

More quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

Image
They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs. Tommy spins me again and grins at me. And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. 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
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
I don't think I'd like to argue with you, I say. I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Tommy grabs my waist and swings me around in a circle. I drag my feet because i am opposed to people touching me when I'm not expecting it. Also because it will take more than dancing to cheer me up.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Well,” said Ronan, “I hope he likes it. I’ve pulled a muscle.” Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.” “Opening my hood.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret abyss in which others find their end: again and again the two of us go out under the ancient trees, make our bed again and again between the flowers, face to face with the skies
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well. And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window? I teased. Sam turned bright red. That, he said, is so not the point of this conversation.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?
Maggie Stiefvater
Image
I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.
Maggie Stiefvater