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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
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The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.
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I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. It occurred to me that if Grace and I were objects, she would be an elaborate digital clock, synced up with the World Clock in London with technical perfection, and I’d be a snow globe – shaken memories in a glass ball.
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I'm not done writing songs about you yet.
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The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.
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Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.
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He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?
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When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.
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If the waitress comes, order me a coffee and something that involves bacon.
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That's a depressing and practical thought, Sam said. I'd rather it was something magical.
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Strange what love taught you about your faults.
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It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!
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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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I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.
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I like you better this way. For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. Crushed and broken, Gansey said. Just the way women like 'em.
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The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.
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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
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There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.
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I can't tell the difference, I said. Between not fighting and giving up.
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Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch -sam
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I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.
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