Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

This morning my dad called me up and said, 'So, tonight's your last show, huh.' And I said, 'No, Dad, that's someone else.'

Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering,I thought,except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.

My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

Who are you and why are you my cat?

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.

One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!

Does nobody understand?

I want to feel that I own things.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

Everything we own tells too much about us.

Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

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

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

I went to a garage sale. 'How much for the garage' 'It's not for sale.'

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.

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?