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I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said Grace. The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Like
Grace
Entranced
Head
Timbre
Voice
Vowels
Anything
Formed
Music
Tone
Way
Stuck
Think
Lips
Thinking
Couldn
Idiotically

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