Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

What is eternity? You're on the checkout line at a supermarket. There are seven people in front of you. They are all old. They all have two carts and coupons for every item. They are all paying by check. None of them have ID. It's the checkout girl's first day on the job. She doesn't speak any English. Take away fifteen minutes from that, and you begin to get an idea of what eternity is.

I hope it won't take long.

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Will you wait for me forever?

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

We'll grow old waiting.

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.