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that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets
Maggie Stiefvater
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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
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It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.
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It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.
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I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.
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Calla readjusted, wrapping the silk around her other thigh instead. Which one's he again? The pretty one? Blue and Gansey exchanged a look. Blue's look said, I'm so, so sorry. Gansey's said, Am I the pretty one?
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He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.
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