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Knowing what I was, and wanting me, anyway.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Wanting
Anyway
Knowing

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His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.
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They bit you. You should've changed, too, you know. Sometimes I wish I had, I told him. He closed his eyes, miles away on the other side of the bed. Sometimes I do, too.
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If the waitress comes, order me a coffee and something that involves bacon.
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I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.
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I can't tell the difference, I said. Between not fighting and giving up.
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Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.
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Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.
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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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Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.
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We don't have time to be sad
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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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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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..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands
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Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.
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What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.
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They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs. Tommy spins me again and grins at me. And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning.
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This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.
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