Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Does our hand show in this?

One should not maintain a dispute.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.