Maggie Stiefvater Quotes - Page 11

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• Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent words to untangle it) Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming, So that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star I was beginning to undertand poetry.

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  Stars, Home, Understanding

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• Death smells like birthday cake.

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  Cake, Smell, Birthday Cake

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• Books are more real when you read them outside.

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  Real, Book, Shiver

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic UK

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• Hope hurt more than the cold.

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  Hurt, Cold, Shiver

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.135, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.

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  Heaven, Unraveling, Fine

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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• Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

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  White, Pet, Bed

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.

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  Snow, Laughing, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.

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  Sideburns

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

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• I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.

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  Boys, Thinking, Names

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.

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  Sweet, Lying, Eye

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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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  Eye, Hands, Yellow

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.250, Scholastic Inc.

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• It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His howl trembled, rose, fell in anguish. I listened for a long time. I prayed for them to stop, to leave me alone, but at the same time I was desperately afraid they would. Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow. When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead.

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  Heart, Night, Voice

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.254, Scholastic Inc.

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• I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

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  Light, Color, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years.

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  Cute, Girl, Years

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• Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly.

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  Horse, Zero, Eye

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• What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a brain.' If you did, you'd have opened the door for me.' I shot him a dark look and let him shove against the door a moment longer before I ducked under his arms to push it open. 'What is it really?' Schoolbooks. We're going to educate you properly, so you don't grow up to be an idiot.; I remembered by intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

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  Growing Up, School, Dark

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• Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

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  Feelings, Might, Awful

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• For a second, he was still, blinking. Then he shook off all the blankets and coats so that his arms were free and he wrapped them around me as tightly as he could. I felt him shuddering, shuddering against me as he buried his face in my hair. 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."" — Grace and Sam (Shiver)

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  Eye, Hair, Hands

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.250, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.

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  Dad, Fall, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.

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• Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without preservatives" into Italian. They warned me, however, as they taught me how to say it, that the Italian word for "preservatives" is the same as the word for "condom." So that I should be careful how I look when I say it.

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  Italian, Looks, Phrases

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• His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.

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  Summer, Winter, Hands

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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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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  Stars, Long Grass, Wind

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• Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species.

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  Two, Different, Shiver

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Look, I realize both of you could happily strangle each other across the table, but I don't think that's the most effective use of our time, and frankly, I don't think I have enough money to tip the waitress for that kind of clean-up. And look, here's lunch. Let's eat that instead of eachother.

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  Thinking, Lunch, Looks

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• Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

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  Light, Hands, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.420, Scholastic Inc.

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