I know you love her, but you can live without her.
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anonymous doors
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Stretching my hand to you
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For ever?"
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Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?"
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."
"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."
"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER