{"author":"Maggie Stiefvater","author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater","total_quotes":312,"quotes":[{"text":"Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["gansey","personality"],"id":1659,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an ice-covered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["envisioning-the-future","envisioning-the-prize-ahead","future","life-together","love","lovers","relationship","relationships"],"id":4609,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["grace","linger"],"id":12297,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["maggie-stiefvater","the-scorpio-races","young-adult"],"id":14597,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"For some reason, Beck's unexpected kindness was hard to bear - it made tears prick my eyes where Jack's threats hadn't.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["kind-people","kindness"],"id":14760,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"Sam- ' After you were bitten, I knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so I could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt.' Grace- ' How long did you wait?' Sam- ' I haven't stopped.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["romantic"],"id":16667,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn't feel bad about that. It's not your bear.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["bears","funny","kiss"],"id":19323,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"This is sams phone' there was a long,heavy pause, and then: 'oh.' Another pause. 'Youre the girl, arent you? The girl who was in my house?' I tried to think of what I might gain by denying it and drew a blank 'yes' do you have a name?'do you?'he gave a short laugh that was completely without humor but not unpleasent. 'I think I might like you. I'm Beck.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["beck","grace"],"id":20397,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine,' Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["blue","education","friendship","greek","humor"],"id":20434,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["gansey","interest","obsession","passion","unfullfilled","urgency"],"id":22308,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":312,"pages":32,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}