Maggie Stiefvater
When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.Collection: Powerful
I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.Collection: Jealous
Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked. Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?" Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.Collection: Daughter
Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.Collection: Boys
He's a pit bull," Adam said. "I know some really nice pit bulls." "He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him." "How noble.Collection: Nice
I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.Collection: Wall
Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.Collection: Children
I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.Collection: Boys
Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?Collection: Light
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.Collection: Book
Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night..." Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.Collection: Boys
One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye I shout it out so loud Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.Collection: Voice
I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.Collection: Jealous
I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.Collection: Memories
and i am a boy waiting-for the heat and fruitfulness of summer,waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girlCollection: Girl
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.Collection: Dark
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.Collection: Taken
the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .Collection: Memories
I loved you so much right then Sam Roth.Collection: I Loved You
"After you were bitten, i knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so i could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt." "How long did you wait?" "I haven't stopped."Collection: Hurt
His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the mostCollection: Bye
Strange what love taught you about your faults.Collection: Taught
and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile awayCollection: Miles
It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget.Collection: Want
here we were again , always saying good-byeCollection: Bye
Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dreamCollection: Dream
Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.Collection: Sight
I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymoreCollection: Want
I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye.Collection: Bye
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.Collection: Book
I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.Collection: Community
I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and they didn't seem to make check boxes for whatever it was that I had grown up into. I definitely explore that a lot in my novels.Collection: Teenage
I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. It occurred to me that if Grace and I were objects, she would be an elaborate digital clock, synced up with the World Clock in London with technical perfection, and I’d be a snow globe – shaken memories in a glass ball.Collection: Memories
This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became oneCollection: Girl
is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbyeCollection: Goodbye
she waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't haveCollection: Wanted
his voice was centuries oldCollection: Voice
I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.Collection: Sight
You look like a puppy. Like I'm jingling my keys and you're jumping by the door waiting for your walk" "Woof.Collection: Keys
I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my caseCollection: Thinking
My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy.Collection: Cute
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .Collection: Hurt
Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.Collection: Silence
Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposedCollection: Gift Of Time
Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.Collection: Eye
Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.Collection: Eye
holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.Collection: Letting Go
You're getting your weird all over me.Collection: Your Weird
Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.Collection: Real