Maggie Stiefvater

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.

Then she called Gansey.It rang twice, three times, and then: "Hello?"He sounded boyish and ordinary. Blue asked, "Did I wake you up?"She heard Gansey fumble for and scrape up his wireframes."No," he lied, "I was awake.""I called you by accident anyway. I meant to call Congress, but your number was one off.""Oh?""Yeah, because yours has 6-6-5 in it." She paused. "Get it?""Oh, you.""6-6-5. One number different. Get it?""Yeah, I got it.

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.

- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that.

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.

Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan__ lack of heat tolerance. __ didn__ say anything._ __hatever, man,_ Ronan replied. __ know that face. You were born in hell, you__e used to it.

Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don__ (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don__ have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.

Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".

Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. Chainsaw eyed herself briefly before hiding on the other side of Ronan's neck; Adam did the same, but without the hiding-in-Ronan's-neck bit. Even Blue looked less fanciful that usual, the lighting rendering her lampshade dress and spiky hair as a melancholy Pierrot.

They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can__ see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.

All food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious.

...all she could think was 'This is how close a kiss is'. It felt every bit as dangerous as she'd imagined.

Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn't feel bad about that. It's not your bear.