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Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence

Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. And it was a strange sort of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for Glendower with them.

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Self Confidence, Boys, Hunting
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.

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Memories, Thinking, Islands

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

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Fascinated
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.272, Scholastic UK

'We have to be back in three hours,' Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This,' Gansey replied, 'is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.'

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Baby, Three, Needs
"The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments - and then roared to deafening life. The Camaro lived to fight another day. The radio was even working, playing the Stevie Nicks song that always sounded to Gansey like it was about a one-winged dove.

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Song, Fighting, Keys
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.

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Way, Strange, Forgotten
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

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Happiness, Islands, Yield
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.175, Scholastic UK

I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.

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Daughter, Evil, Eccentric
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.34, Scholastic Inc.

The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

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Special, Looks, Knack
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not I'm brave enough to go into the stall with Corr after yesterday morning, after I've had time to think about what happened. The thought of it makes my pulse trip. The question is not if I trust Corr. The question is if I trust Sean.

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Morning, Eye, Thinking
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.272, Scholastic UK

Oh, I'll buy fourteen dresses and build a road and name it after myself and try one of everything at Palsson's." Though I don't quite look up, I can still feel his gaze on me. It's a heavy thing, this look of his. He says," What's the real answer?

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Real, Names, Trying

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

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Thinking, Secret, Turns

Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the press of his hips on against me. i turn to ask him a question, and he jerks his face away from the proximity of mine. I say, "Oh. Sorry.

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Sorry, Faces, Hips
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.282, Scholastic UK

Sean takes my ponytail in his hand, his fingers touching my neck, and then he tucks my hair into my collar out of the reach of the wind. He avoids my gaze. Then he links his arm back around me and pushes his calf into Corr's side.

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Hair, Hands, Wind

Sean reaches out between us and takes my wrist. He press his thumb on my pulse. My heartbeat trips and surges against his skin. I'm pinned by his touch, a sort of fearful magic. We stand and stand, and I wait for my pulse against his finger to slow, but it doesn't Finally, he releases my wrist and says," I'll see you on the cliffs tomorrow.

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Waiting, Magic, Skins

I know not to trust anyone," i say. "Except..." Holly studies my face. "You do fancy him, don't you? What a strange, wonderful, repressed place this is.

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Hollies, Fancy, Faces
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.302, Scholastic UK

Knowing what I was, and wanting me, anyway.

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Knowing
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.251, Scholastic UK

Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

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Kings, Hero, Sleep
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.40, Scholastic Inc.

His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.

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Faces, Strange, Enough
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.67, Scholastic Inc.

This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.

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Baby, Dna

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.

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Blue, Shoes, Looks

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

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Growing Up, Kids, Forever
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.474, Scholastic Inc.

I touched my lips to hers again, and this time, it was a very different sort of kiss. It was six years’ worth of kissing, her lips coming to life under mine, tasting of orange and of desire. Her fingers ran through my sideburns and into my hair before linking around my neck, alive and cool on my warm skin. I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. For once in my human life, my mind didn’t wander to compose a song lyric or store the moment for later reflection. For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else. -Sam

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Song, Kissing, Reflection

I tired the back door -- unlocked. Truley the Man Upstairs was smiling down on me.

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Tired, Men, Doors

I felt like I was watching the transfomation of two people: Victor to wolf, and Cole to someone else. I was the only one here, staying the same.

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Two, People, Staying

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