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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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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
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Watered
Sand
Blood
Pain
Lives

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here we were again , always saying good-bye
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I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just looked at me like I was — nothing. An annoyance, maybe.
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His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.
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Where do you live? Adam's mouth was very set. A place made for leaving That's not really an answer. It's not really a place.
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And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.
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The Boy should watch where he’s going,” she said. “Rachel should not manifest in doorways,” I replied.
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The boy had my wolf's eyes.
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We don't have time to be sad
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Its beyond him now. its time for you to do you own thing. My thing? my thing only worked if Grace was here to make it work. without Grace, i have an emotionally unbalanced wolf and a Volkswagen.
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Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water. - Whelk
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Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.
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