Stiefvater Quotes

“More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

“I've been waiting for you forever."

"Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

“She was so mean that she even killed her own name, and now people just pointed to her.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

“In the sea, Corr’s clumsiness will disappear, his weight cradled by the saltwater. I don’t want to say good-bye. I blink to clear my vision and reach up. I pull off his halter. The ocean is his love and now, finally, he’ll have it. I back out of the surf. There’s a thin, long wail. Corr takes a labored step away from the November sea. And another. He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races