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Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

Maggie Stiefvater
Teenager, Fighting, Battle

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.

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Girl, Past, Broken

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

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Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter that a thousand snares were laid for us as soon as we left this moment. All that mattered was this: our noses touching, the softness of his mouth, the ache inside me.

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Touching, Would Be, Noses
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My friend is having his period," I told the pizza guy, and handed him his tip. "He needs Britney and extra cheese to get him through it. I'm trying to be supportive.

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Guy, Supportive, Trying

Nobody ever sees this part,” I said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s pretty.” “So it’s like track six on an album,” Cole said.

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Track, Albums, Matter
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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.

Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

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Said, Crushed, Grace Brisbane
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.287, Scholastic Inc.

I looked good when I sang the end.

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

Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!

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Nice, Night, Bye
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.1009, Scholastic UK

How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

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Long, Each Day, Knows
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.126, Scholastic UK

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

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Life, People, People Don't Change
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother, and the smell of the breadsticks, "and I will sell your firstborn child to the devil.

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Mother, Children, Smell
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

Cole kissed me.. It was the sort of kiss that would take a long time to recover from. You could take each of our kisses, from the very first moment we'd met and put them on a slide in a microscope, and I was pretty sure what you'd find. Even an expert would see nothing on the first one, and then on the next one, the start of something - mostly outnumbered, easily destroyed - and then more and more until finally this one, something that even the untrained eye could spot. Evidence that we'd probably never be cured of each other, but we might be able to keep it from killing us.

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Eye, Kissing, Long

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

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

She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.

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Enough, Get Away, Turns
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.

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Letting Go, Facts
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.543, Scholastic Inc.

Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

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Real, Love Is, Long
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.909, Scholastic Inc.

I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.

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Thinking, Voice, Grace
Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.211, Scholastic Inc.

You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.

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Hands, Pavement, Assuming

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