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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
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Virginia
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I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.
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Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.
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It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget.
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She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.
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In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.
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It could kill you, Maura said. Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.
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The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being. I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.
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Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.
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Sam did smile then, and said softly, Hey Angel.
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Can I ask you a question? You already have. He paused, considering. Can I ask you two questions, then? You already have.
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Oh, I'll buy fourteen dresses and build a road and name it after myself and try one of everything at Palsson's. Though I don't quite look up, I can still feel his gaze on me. It's a heavy thing, this look of his. He says, What's the real answer?
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He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.
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I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.
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My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.
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It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.
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Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.
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