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Boys like him didn't die they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Boys
Public
Dies
Didn
Like
Installed
Libraries
Library
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My good mood felt like an endangered species.
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You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look. Don't cry. You're not that girl either.' 'Oh yeah? What girl am I?' 'I'll let you know when I figure it out. Just don't cry.
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Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well. And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window? I teased. Sam turned bright red. That, he said, is so not the point of this conversation.
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right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
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Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. 'A sword is never a killer it is a tool in the killer's hand'. I can't believe Noah didn't stick around to help. Sure you can. Never trust the dead.
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I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space
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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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And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
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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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I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
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I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.
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Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead. I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face. It was almost like he was there.
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He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.
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We don't have time to be sad
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You're not going to die, I told her, lifting my head to look at her. I'm not done writing songs about you yet.
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...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.
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In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.
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Books are more real when you read them outside.
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He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick gestures, the way he sucked in his lower lip to think before going on - I was in love with all of it.
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