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Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Nowhere
Else
Life
Sideburns

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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
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I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space
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I didn't say I would start a yard. You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.
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Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
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We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.
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Shouldn't you be looking at other cars? You know, car shopping usually involves ... shopping. I don't shop very well, Grace said. I just see what I need and get it.
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It felt wrong to be so proud of something that I had absolutely nothing to do with, but I couldn't help myself.
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His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most
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To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.
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It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.
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He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.
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Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.
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You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look. Don't cry. You're not that girl either.' 'Oh yeah? What girl am I?' 'I'll let you know when I figure it out. Just don't cry.
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You're getting your weird all over me.
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I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.
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With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.
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Some people see what they want to see.
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she waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have
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He smiled tolerantly at her. Rubbing his smooth chin its recently assassinated chin hairs, he studied her. She barely came up to Ronan's shoulder, but she was every bit as big as he, every bit as present.
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I don't think I'd like to argue with you, I say. I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.
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