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Sam: “I—it’s—I’m not an animal.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Animal

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I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
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It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.
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How long? His smile was amazingly sweet. The longest. For ever? Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. Longer.
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I can't tell the difference, I said. Between not fighting and giving up.
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One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.
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I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.
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She reached down and traced my eyebrows. 'You do have really beautiful eyes.' 'We get to keep them,' I said. Grace started at my voice. 'What?' 'It's the one thing we keep. Our eyes stay the same.' I unclenched my fists. 'I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.
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And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
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Happiness isn't something this island yields easily the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
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I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.
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Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.
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