Quotes from Maggie Stiefvater

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.

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

Grace," I said, very softly. Say something." Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again.

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.

The only thing was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic that was in the world.