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There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
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The boy had my wolf's eyes.
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'We have to be back in three hours,' Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This,' Gansey replied, 'is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.'
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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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I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
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Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.
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Sam: “I—it’s—I’m not an animal.
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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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Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?
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I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.
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I said uselessly, Sam, don't go. Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.
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I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.
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I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me. Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen. Were you talking to me or Ronan? Either. I'm flexible. Blue made a small, terrible noise. I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water.
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Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his.
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It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget.
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I didn't say I would start a yard. You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.
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..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands
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I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.
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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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Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.
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I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just - wanted.
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