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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out. Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Thoughts
Trapped
Behind
Page
Emotion
Awful
Silence
Emotions
Something
Terror
Cole
Pages
Linger
Couldn
Latent
Behinds
Acted

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