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I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Maggie Stiefvater
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: November 18
Novelist
Writer
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Certain
Avoidance
Ideal
Ideals
Fantasy
Choice
Choices
Makes
Reality

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Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.
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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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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.
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That's a depressing and practical thought, Sam said. I'd rather it was something magical.
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The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.
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Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.
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One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.
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What about us? Can i see you again? You can say no. You'd crush all my hopes and dreams, but it's an option.
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When did you get so smart? He tapped his forehead. Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill. He shrugged. And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.
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I can't tell the difference, I said. Between not fighting and giving up.
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Reality's what other people dream for you.
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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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Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.
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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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I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.
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It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.
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It's like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable - different reactions to the same temperature.
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Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
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In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
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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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