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The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains. ---Cole

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Rooms
Thrown
Dresser
Like
Mouth
Dressers
Mouths
Cole
Entire
Wiped
Sun
Afterward
Looked
Curtains
Wall
Walls
Room
Yellow

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