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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.


Maggie Stiefvater

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MAGGIE STIEFVATER He delighted Murs in history with his focused study on the spread of personal electronics through th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I never taught him to break his thumb."
"That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn’t want to feel like I was the only person in the world who hated people.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Wait —” Sam said. “Have you seen Isabel yet?”
My fingers still felt the shape of her. ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Cole said, “You’re the only good thing I’ve ever done in my life.” I replied, “I’m sorry...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Is that all?" she whispered.
Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making su...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fro and to in my dreams to you
To the haunting tune of the harp
For the price I paid when ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Do you know how some people can do anything?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you tel...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER names are a way to keep people in your mind
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Don't tell me that. I've lived in hell for the past thousand years. I spent a thousand years ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER (Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER MANIBUS
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Do you understand? If they die, I die, too.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It's easy to know a lot of things when time goes around instead of straight.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Come again? I know, I know — that's what Lynch says.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle an...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Now Gansey grinned, the warmth of discovery starting to course through him. "So, pop quiz, Mr Parris...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I take it we're friends now," Henry said.
"We must be," Gansey replied. "Jane says it should b...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in c...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Cole,” I said, “do you think I’m lovable?”
“As in ‘cuddly and’?”
“As in ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go awa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort o...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah.
"Noah took a personal day....
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.”
Grace: “I’m not looking for self...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER