Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

I do get in the water, but I was ruined by 'Jaws' 'cause I saw it when I was 13. Before that, I used to get in the water everywhere and never thought twice about it. After watching 'Jaws,' I was scared of the water. I have Steven Spielberg to thank for giving me another phobia.

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

I'm sick of running away from things.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.