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Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

Maggie Stiefvater
Cake, Condescending, Overbearing
Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.38, North Star Editions, Inc.

When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

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Children, Mean, Kids

Reality's what other people dream for you.

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Dream, Reality, People
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.329, Scholastic UK

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

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Busting Out, Mind, Stories

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

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Book, Ideas, Work Out
"'Shiver' author Maggie Stiefvater ready to see her werewolves on the big screen" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. October 23, 2009.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

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Beautiful, Country, Grew Up

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

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Book, Thinking, Challenges

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

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Country, Thinking, Chicago

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

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Writing, Like You, Ends

I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.

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Girl, Memories, House
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.551, Scholastic Inc.

If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.

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Girl, Song, Kissing
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.274, Scholastic Inc.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

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Acting, Together, Virtue
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.

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Lunch, Doubt, Guilt
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.177, Scholastic UK

I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back." "Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended.

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Kissing, Voice, Teeth
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

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Dystopian Fiction, Culture, Violent

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

Maggie Stiefvater
Book, Horror, Filmmaker

He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while he played with my hair. He started to hum a song, and then, after a few bars, he sang it. Quietly, sort of half-sung, half-spoken, incredibly gentle. I didn’t catch all the words, but it was about his summer girl. Me. Maybe his forever girl. His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an icecovered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.

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Summer, Girl, Song
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.

When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.

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Blood, Rivers, Born
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Maggie Stiefvater
Giving Up, Writing, Thinking

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

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Book, Air, Smell
Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?

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Blue, Arms, Adam
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.330, Scholastic Inc.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

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Writing, People, Belief
Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.294, Scholastic Inc.

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

Maggie Stiefvater
Home, School, College
Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 01, 2011.

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

Maggie Stiefvater
People, Interesting, Pushing

Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.

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Secret, Fascinated
Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.61, North Star Editions, Inc.

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