Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Life is a risk.

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

That's probably the only thing I am afraid of: time.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

Everything happens for a reason. But I would love to still be at Clemson.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

I'm very scared to do it. What if I don't come back? With the whole light-years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I'll be like, 'Great. Now I have to start all over'.

For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.