Quotes from Maggie Stiefvater

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species.

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest of her.

...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

We don't have time to be sad

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

Once upon a time I would've leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.

Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed

...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.

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.

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can't both win.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.