Margaret Stohl Quotes & Sayings

I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not. — Margaret Stohl

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me. — Margaret Stohl

We kept my middle schooler home from school for three days before we turned in our final draft because she was so mean and so brutal at editing out all the cheesy bits. She would roll her eyes and make fun of us, and it was what we needed. — Margaret Stohl

They aren't perfect. They aren't much. They didn't grow me in their bellies or a lab or adopt me through the embassy. I don't know the total truth about them, or the truth behind the truths. But it doesn't matter. For better, for worse, here we are. What we have is one another.
This is my family now. — Margaret Stohl

Jump or stay in the boat. — Margaret Stohl

In the end, the Wheel crushes us all. — Margaret Stohl

You need books to read and readers for books. — Margaret Stohl

He saved the world, but he shattered mine. — Margaret Stohl

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings. — Margaret Stohl

When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself. Or you think you're not really going to die. You're going to be the first person in the history of the world who doesn't have to. Maybe that's some kind of lie our brains tell us to keep us from going crazy while we're alive. — Margaret Stohl

Ro winks. "I forgive you, Dol-face."
Then, without a word, he takes off running and I have no choice but to follow. — Margaret Stohl

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities.
Macon — Margaret Stohl

Enough!" Romanoff barked. "Look around you. You're on a military transport. Nobody's flirting. S.H.I.E.L.D. does not run a dating service." "Well," Coulson said, "technically it's frowned upon, but I'd be lying if - " Romanoff glared at Coulson, and he fell silent. — Margaret Stohl

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms. — Margaret Stohl

I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.' — Margaret Stohl

Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool. — Margaret Stohl

At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page. — Margaret Stohl

I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either. — Margaret Stohl

Her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place I was from. — Margaret Stohl

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade. — Margaret Stohl

Lucas motions to Ro's ears, where the blood is spattering down to his shoulders. "Let's just get this done before our heads explode." Ro considers him for a long moment, then hands him Tima's map. — Margaret Stohl

I used to think about how alike we all are. The human race, those of us who survived. Then I thought, if the stories were true and there were other Icon Children - if I met any - we would understand each other perfectly, the way Ro and I so often do. — Margaret Stohl

Furo Costas. The Rager. You, my friend, are an imbecile. You could have killed me twenty times, on the Tracks. I'm surprised you're not dead.
Ro shrugs, happily. It's nothing he hasn't heard before, and nothing he doesn't see as a compliment. — Margaret Stohl

I'm Natasha Romanoff. Nobody judos my ass. — Margaret Stohl

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me? — Margaret Stohl

My thief of junk. Climber of mountains. Builder of worlds. — Margaret Stohl

I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.' — Margaret Stohl

I was raised in a community of Christian orthodoxy that had traveled with my parents to Los Angeles when they moved there for my father's job. — Margaret Stohl

Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he'll find the one thing you don't want him to do, and do it every time. It's one of his many gifts. — Margaret Stohl

People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong. — Margaret Stohl

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry. — Margaret Stohl

Tony had started the evening off with his improvised Stark Quantum Detangler - quickly followed by a Stark Quantum Retangler - soon detouring into a little Stark Quantum Hypnotic Regulator, a Stark Quantum Rapid Eye Movement Stimulator, and a Stark Quantum Ultrasound Scanner. Basically, if Tony could put the words Stark or Quantum in front of it, he was game. — Margaret Stohl

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.
Ethan — Margaret Stohl

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself. — Margaret Stohl

The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast. — Margaret Stohl

Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence."
"I'm itchin' ta have some a that white cake."
"That's not how you spell it." At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board. "There's no T in itchin'." Or not. — Margaret Stohl

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear. — Margaret Stohl

Perhaps there is something more frightening than love itself. — Margaret Stohl

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion. — Margaret Stohl

The way I feel now - broken and empty and depleted - this is what happens when I let the feelings come. — Margaret Stohl

It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out. — Margaret Stohl

All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you. — Margaret Stohl

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager. — Margaret Stohl

I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009. — Margaret Stohl

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different. — Margaret Stohl

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone. — Margaret Stohl

Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder. — Margaret Stohl

The business of the dead belongs to the living. — Margaret Stohl

I'm up at dawn. I practically fall asleep at dinner. — Margaret Stohl

YOU CAN'T KNEEL TO A LORD WHO WILL NOT SHOW HIS FACE.
YOU CAN'T PRAY TO A GOD WHO HATES THE HUMAN RACE. — Margaret Stohl

We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe. — Margaret Stohl

Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphenated identity - about loving and hating my world, about both belonging and not belonging to the community I came from. — Margaret Stohl

Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.'
That was a visual I didn't need — Margaret Stohl

It doesn't matter if it's aliens or emotional weapons or whatever - it's still a real story about big feelings that have to come out. — Margaret Stohl

I fictionship. I love fictional men. — Margaret Stohl

Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears. — Margaret Stohl

I know how it makes you feel ... peaceful, permanent, unbroken — Margaret Stohl

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you. — Margaret Stohl

Here's a question for you, Ro. Since when did you become such an ***?"
Now he looks at me. Finally. When he does his face is so open I wish he hadn't. "Since I fell in love with a girl named sorrow, I guess. Should have seen that one coming."
There.
He said it.
Love.
He loves me. — Margaret Stohl

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all. — Margaret Stohl

So you are a vampire."
"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television. — Margaret Stohl

Not everything that comes from the sky is an angel. It's true. And not everything that lives on the Earth is a human. Also true. — Margaret Stohl

The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist.
Xavier, The Gatekeeper — Margaret Stohl

Getting books out into the world helps us all. — Margaret Stohl

The double-teaming paid off; there was no resisting the power of a Stark-Romanoff alliance for long. — Margaret Stohl

I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy. — Margaret Stohl

ROMANOFF: Every Russian family line ends in a czar. That's the only way the genealogist gets paid, sir. — Margaret Stohl

There are a lot of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.
Charlie — Margaret Stohl

Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them. — Margaret Stohl

We wanted to celebrate the 'Dangerous Deception' release by letting everyone experience the thrill of sharing a book with a reader who wouldn't otherwise have one. — Margaret Stohl

I'm getting pretty tired of unicorns. Could we try to get a regular horse around here for once? — Margaret Stohl

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means. — Margaret Stohl

A love so strong, you can't tell where you end and the other person begins. — Margaret Stohl

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope. — Margaret Stohl

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night. — Margaret Stohl

But I knew no one. I was alone. No one cared. You might as well have left me to die."
"You didn't, did you?"
"Die? No, I didn't. No thanks to you. Now I know I can only depend on myself."
"Exactly." Natasha shrugged. "You're welcome."
Ava didn't respond.
Natasha sat down next to her. "Such Russian problems." She settled her back against the wall. "I know you're angry. Be as angry as you want. But no matter how you feel, we need to get out of here. Fair enough?"
"Why should I do anything you say?"
"Because you can trust me."
"Are you crazy? You're the one person I can't trust. You taught me not to trust you."
"No. I taught you not to trust anyone," Natasha said. "And that's something everyone has to learn. Especially every girl." She sounded as stubborn as Ava felt. — Margaret Stohl

THIRTEEN GREAT ICONS FELL FROM THE SKY, WHEN THEY CAME ALIVE, SIX CITIES DIED. REMEMBER 6/6. THE PROJECTS ARE SLAVERY. WE ARE NOT FREE. SILENCE IS NOT PEACE. REMEMBER THE DAY. DEATH TO THE SYMPAS, DEATH TO THE LORDS. DESTROY THE ICONS. REMEMBER. — Margaret Stohl

Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true. — Margaret Stohl

I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia. — Margaret Stohl

Sam and Dean Winchester sitting on the top of the Impala sharing their feelings over a beer is a reward worth driving any 'Supernatural' demon away - but in real life, they'd have crippling co-dependency issues. — Margaret Stohl

I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attracted stronger writers as it's started to thrive. — Margaret Stohl

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone.
-Macon Ravenwood — Margaret Stohl

The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first 'Spiderman' game as well as 'Fantastic Four,' and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative. — Margaret Stohl

Doc! I'd kiss you if you had a mouth, you sexy thing." Ro shouts up to the sky, as if Doc were everywhere in the universe. Which, sometimes, it feels like he is. "And I would exchange data with you if you had a dataport, you exemplary specimen. Analogically speaking. Is that correct? — Margaret Stohl

My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet. — Margaret Stohl

If you look at 'Doctor Who,' it's a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It's a silly concept, but it's one of the most brilliant, emotional experiences because it's sort of about what is humanity. — Margaret Stohl

Great. So he's a genius. Fifty points for Ivanclaw. — Margaret Stohl

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight. — Margaret Stohl

Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones. — Margaret Stohl

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them. — Margaret Stohl

It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past. — Margaret Stohl

I don't need Coulson or the cavalry," Natasha said finally. "Please, I'm my own cavalry. — Margaret Stohl

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality. — Margaret Stohl