Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I want to feel that I own things.

My mom's never owned anything. I always wanted her to own something that she could say, 'This is mine' and feel good about it.

If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

The more we have the less we own.

I do better in life when my world seems a little smaller.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

Listen to me. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn’t matter. You’re not one of them. You never were. You’re not theirs. You’re mine.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

If you love something, Let it go, If it comes back it's yours, That's how you know kno-o-ow Nonsense, Christina Aguilera! I say, 'If you love it, file it away under "Things I love". If it's required at a later date, you'll know exactly where it i-i-i-is.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.