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You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

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Stupid, Mean, Parent
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.322, Scholastic Inc.

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again.

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Tattoo, Dream, Sleep

From Ronan's room, he heard Noah's laugh. He and Ronan were throwing various objects from the second-story window to the parking low below. There was a terrific crash. Ronan's voice rose, exasperated. "Not that one, Noah.

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Voice, Laughing, Rose

Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.

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Blue, Ideas, Two
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.

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Grandmother, Dating, Lovely
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

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Kings, Sleep, Knives
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.75, Scholastic Inc.

Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.

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Men, Names, Long
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.31, Scholastic UK

It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.

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Proud, Adam, Hated
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

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Stupid, Pride, Adam
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

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Moments, Metaphor, Gansey

This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest of her.

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Feelings, Mouths, Heat
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-

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Girl, Thinking, Voting
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.306, Scholastic Inc.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

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Book, Wife, Cry

Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked. Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?" Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.

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Daughter, Blue, Evil
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)”, p.34, Scholastic Inc.

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.

Well,” said Ronan, “I hope he likes it. I’ve pulled a muscle.” Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.” “Opening my hood.

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Watches, Likes, Well Said
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.325, Scholastic Inc.

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

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Ideas, Use, Might

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

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Real, Long, This Is Me
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)”, p.164, Scholastic Inc.

She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.

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Lovely, Saws, Adam
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

Blue stretched her hand out. Adam took it without hesitation, like he'd been waiting for her to offer it. He said in a low voice, just for her, "My heart is beating like crazy right now." Strangely enough, it was not his fingers twined in hers that affected Blue the strongest, it was where his warm wrist pressed against hers above their hands.

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Crazy, Heart, Blue
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

I thought I heard---" Gansey broke off. His eyes dropped to where Adam held Blue's hand. Again his face was somewhat puzzled by the fact of their hand-holding. Adam's grip tightened, although she didn't think he meant for it to.

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Eye, Thinking, Blue

He smiled tolerantly at her. Rubbing his smooth chin its recently assassinated chin hairs, he studied her. She barely came up to Ronan's shoulder, but she was every bit as big as he, every bit as present.

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Hair, Smooth, Bigs
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.185, Scholastic Inc.

Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

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Selfish, Silly, Fall

And there is the girl. When I first see her and her dun mare from my vantage point on the cliff road, I am struck first not by the fact that she is a girl, but by the fact that she's in the ocean. it's the dreaded second day, the day people start to die, and no one will get close to the surf. But there she is, trotting up to the knee in the water. Fearless.

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Girl, Ocean, People

I can't really believe that it's over. "I'll speak for her." Every face turns to where Sean Kendrick stands a little apart from the crowd, his arms crossed. "This island runs on courage, not blood," he says. His face is turned towards me, but his eyes are on Eaton and his groups. In the hush after he speaks, I can hear my heart thudding in my ears.

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Running, Believe, Eye

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