Maggie Stiefvater Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.” “His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?” Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.

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  Father, Names, Voice

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.263, Scholastic Inc.

• My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

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  Mother, Father, Trying

• It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

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  Father, Opposites, Destroying

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.466, Scholastic Inc.

• Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

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  Father, Blue, Mets

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

• Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

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  Jesus, Father, Purses

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.630, Scholastic Inc.

• We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

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  Father, Long, Boxes

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.75, Scholastic UK

• The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.

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  Wall, Fear, Father

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.32, Scholastic UK

• She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

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  Daughter, Father, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

• Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back again and makes me feel that he's scanning the depths of my soul and teasing out my motivations and sins. It's worse than confession with Father Mooneyham. At the end of it, he says, "If you help, this will go faster.

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  Motivation, Father, Eye

• What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

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  Father, Eye, Son

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.329, Scholastic Inc.

• My father said once that if I didn't have my mother's ginger hair, I wouldn't blush or curse as easily. Which I though was unfair. I hardly ever curse or blush, even though I've had plenty of days that required both.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Father, Hair

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