Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

The end times are here. And that is a lot, so that is why we have to do our best to stop it.

The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

One sound blow will serve to undo us all.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.