Maggie Stiefvater Quotes - Page 6

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• The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

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  Eye, Islands, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.98, Scholastic UK

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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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  Sorry, Dark, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.740, Scholastic Inc.

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• I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. "For crying out loud," he said. "It's a racoon." "Poor thing," I said. "It could be a rabid baby-killer," Cole told me primly. "Shut up," Sam said pleasantly.

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  Baby, Looks, Arms

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• you wanted saving didn't you?

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  Saving, Wanted

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.59, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

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  Sirens, Dangerous, Leading Me

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.112, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• You two are a strange pair. You are a pair, aren't you?" "We're in training.

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  Two, Training, Pairs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.369, Scholastic UK

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• He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

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  Sea, Return, Return To Me

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.372, Scholastic UK

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• Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.

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  Play, Grace, Variation

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.712, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

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  Love, Men, Mountain

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• Clutter is my natural habitat.

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  Habitat, Natural, Clutter

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.132, Scholastic UK

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• whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.

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  Writing, Kissing, Epic

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• Because I knew it wasn't for forever." Grace touched his hair and he bent his head to kiss her, quiet as a secret.

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  Kissing, Hair, Forever

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• There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day. You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.

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  Race, People, Trying

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• Shhhhhh, shhhhhh, says the sea, but I don't believe her.

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  Believe, Sea, Don't Believe

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.121, Scholastic UK

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• We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.

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  Size, Stones, Potatoes

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.134, Scholastic UK

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• Do you know how to wrap a leg?" "I was born wrapping legs," I say stiffly, because I'm insulted. "Must've been a challenging delivery," Sean notes.

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  Challenges, Legs, Notes

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• Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.

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  Horse, Men, Race

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

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• I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

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  Mother, Laughter, Nice

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• Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry.

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  Hurt, Sorry, Apology

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.645, Scholastic Inc.

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• This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought of you, before this minute upon another minute upon another Until, numb, my lips fell onto the mouth of another, and I was undone. ~from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter which is a fictional book in Ballad: A gathering of faerie

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  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.131, North Star Editions, Inc.

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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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  Crush, Dream, Hopes And Dreams

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• Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number.

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  Numbers, Said, Loses

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.369, Scholastic UK

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• The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car.

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  Dog, Feet, Car

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

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• In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

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  Jobs, Blue, Feet

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• When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.

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  Summer, Brother, Kings

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