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I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
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Harrisonburg
Virginia
Telling
Challenges
Wrong
Story
Stories
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Think
Whenever
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He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.
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Is this thing safe? Safe as life, Gansey replied.
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Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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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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How do you feel about helicopters? There was a long pause. How do you mean? Ethically? As a mode of transportation. Faster than camels, but less sustainable.
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The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her shoulders, sorry that loving me was such a complicated thing.
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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out. Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.
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You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.
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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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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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