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When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Stomach
Monsters
Risk
Running
Find
Monstrous
Traffic

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Fate, Blue replied, glowering at her mother, is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.
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His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.
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I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.
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Sam did smile then, and said softly, Hey Angel.
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