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The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Wonderful
Human
Humans
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Creatures
Dangerous
Alive

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She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.
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The guitar, I said, will only obey its master. Yeah, Cole agreed, but Grace isn't here. He grinned at me slyly.
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What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.
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Oh my God. What in—” I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. “Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.
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You're getting your weird all over me.
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I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.
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In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
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I never taught him to break him thumb. That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent. Loser, Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.
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He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
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Some people see what they want to see.
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Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.
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It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.
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The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car.
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It's like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable - different reactions to the same temperature.
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Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night... Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.
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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.
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Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?
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I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.
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Where are Sam and Grace? Ringo left in his car a few hours ago. He must've taken Grace with him. I don't know where they went. You didn't ask? We're not married Cole said, and added, in a more humble tone, yet.
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Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.
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