Maggie Stiefvater Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Laughter, Nice

• That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie: Come away, human. Delia: Why? Faerie: Untold delights and youth forever. Delia: I'm holding out for a better offer. Ta.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Forever, Delight

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.129, North Star Editions, Inc.

• It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.

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  Mother, Brother, Fighting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.80, Scholastic UK

• Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

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  Mother, Fate, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.31, 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.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Father, Trying

• The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die." "Ah," said Calla, in a very, very knowing way. "Now I see." "Don't psychoanalyse me," her mother said. "I already have. And I say again, 'ah'.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Boys, Knowing

• I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother, and the smell of the breadsticks, "and I will sell your firstborn child to the devil.

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  Mother, Children, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

• In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Vocabulary, People

• His mother had told him that when you looked into the eyes of God at the pearly gates, all the questions you ever had were answered. Ronan had a lot of questions. Waking Glendower might be like that. Fewer angels attending, and maybe a heavier Welsh accent. Slightly less judgment.

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  Mother, Eye, Angel

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

• His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

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  Mother, Dream, Home

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.144, 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

• Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Mother, Spoons

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.298, Scholastic UK

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