Quotes from Maggie Stiefvater

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

Hope hurt more than the cold.

Well," said Ronan, "I hope he likes it. I've pulled a muscle." Gansey scoffed, "Doing what? You were standing watch." "Opening my hood.

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

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.

At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I came to Chicago, right before 'Shiver' came out. I remember I was so struck by the feel of the city, how wide open it felt, even with these massive buildings all around me. The parks and green spaces are incredible.

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

a life is measured by moments like these

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.

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)

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.