Jill R. > Jill's Quotes

“I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick.'
Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, 'What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?"
"They do."
"And why do you?"
"The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Do you know how to wrap a leg?'
'I was born wrapping legs,' I say stiffly, because I'm insulted.
'Must've been a challenging delivery,' Sean notes.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Clutter is my natural habitat.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Shhhhhh, shhhhhh, says the sea, but I don't believe her.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“And I told you before, I'll sell you any of the thoroughbreds.”
“I didn't make any of those thoroughbreds. I didn't make them what they are.”
“You made all of them what they are.”
I don't look at him. “None of them made me who I am.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about the way he looks at me – with respect – and I think that’s probably worth more than anything.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Tell me what it's like. The race."

"What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand. Something that makes them feel strong or clever. It's why they love the ocean.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I lost a horse today.'
'That sounds careless. What happened?'
'She jumped off a cliff.'
'A cliff! Is that normal?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I believe in the same thing they believe in,' I say, with a jerk of my chin toward town and St. Columba’s. 'I just don't believe you can find it in a building.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Thanks,” I say, and Finn looks uncomfortable. Mum used to say he was like a faerie; he didn't like to be thanked. I add, “Sorry.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races