Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more of a crisis of identity.

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

I don't know which me that I love, got no reflection.

I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Remember like where you’ve come from. Know who you are.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and you wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is 'Who am I going to be today?