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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.

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.

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

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

I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.

Maggie Stiefvater
Thinking, Jogging
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.475, Scholastic Inc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.

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Real, Butterfly, Sun
Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

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.

Books are more real when you read them outside.

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

Death smells like birthday cake.

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Cake, Smell, Birthday Cake

All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below. ... perfect shadows that shift and glow... ... perfect shadows that shift and grow..." "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.

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Glasses, Perfect Days, Singing

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

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Reason, Made, Said
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

Some people see what they want to see.

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Knowing, People, Want
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.131, Scholastic Inc.

I always listen to you. Except when I don't.

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Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.766, Scholastic Inc.

I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.

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Misdemeanors, Felony
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.795, Scholastic Inc.

I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!

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Guitar, Two, Giving
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick gestures, the way he sucked in his lower lip to think before going on - I was in love with all of it.

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Thinking, Gestures, Way
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.203, Scholastic Inc.

It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.

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Rope, Enough, Chasms
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.640, Scholastic Inc.

The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.

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Weed, Coffee, Old Buildings
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class and Thank you for your donation and Honey, could you bring me my sweater with the duck on it?

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Class, Voice, Ducks
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.

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Hated, Courses
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.744, Scholastic Inc.

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

Maggie Stiefvater
Past, Stories, Facts
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.187, Scholastic Inc.

He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat -- one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred dollar that were usually worn by people who spend more time in Land Rovers than barns.

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Keys, Land, People
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I'd scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try.

Maggie Stiefvater
Suicide, Tired, Trying
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.817, Scholastic Inc.

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