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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.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Something
Wanting
Always
Drive
Think
Ambition
Thinking
Seem
Like
Wonder
Sound
Less
Seems
Tourists

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