Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy

Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

expectation isn't the same as desire

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

Hope is a dream deferred.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

We all dream of things we cannot have.

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

I can’t think. I can’t work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

What I really wanted was the impossible.