Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

“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.”

“I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!”

“I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.”

“All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.”

“Father son oily ghost amen.”

“Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you”

“Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them”

“I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.”

“We do not choose our fate, we can only choose if we accept it. Fate will take us where it will, whether we will it or not.” (Sister Mira)”

“From this moment forth, my sword shall be with you and your fate shall be with me.”