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Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

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Devil, Watches, Legion
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.226, Scholastic Inc.

And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.

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War, Eye, Made
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see.

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Morning, Fuse
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.135, Scholastic UK

Blue. My name's Blue Sargent.' 'Blair?' 'Blue.' 'Blaize?' Blue sighed. 'Jane

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Blue, Names, Blair
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.283, Scholastic Inc.

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk

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Sleep, Water, Floating

The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can't both win.

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Winning, Thinking, Together

His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

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Love, Dream, Eye
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

Corr stood here," Sean says wonderingly. "I would've died. He didn't have to stay." For a moment, I see that it doesn't matter that he didn't win. The fact of Corr's loyalty is a bigger thing than the ownership of him.

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Loyalty, Winning, Matter

I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

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Memories, Bye, Grace
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.569, Scholastic Inc.

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

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Light, Hands, Grace
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.420, Scholastic Inc.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

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Silence, Awful, Terror
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.459, Scholastic Inc.

Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.

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Losing, Losing Yourself

You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of any animal on the planet.' It took Isabel only a second to process this. 'No, they don't.' 'I know that's why I've never told anybody that before.

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Animal, Turtles, Brain
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.398, Scholastic Inc.

You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look. Don't cry. You're not that girl either.' 'Oh yeah? What girl am I?' 'I'll let you know when I figure it out. Just don't cry.

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Girl, Tired, Looks
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.273, Scholastic Inc.

Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you're letting go of me you're letting go

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Letting Go, Giving Up, Butterfly

Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead

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Heart, Sleep, Light
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.553, Scholastic Inc.

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

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Dark, Thinking, Years
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.509, Scholastic Inc.

Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.

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Light, Race, Years
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

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Heart, Pride, Credit
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.329, Scholastic UK

Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.

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Needs, Six, Five

It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.

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Mind, Mouths, Betrayed
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.131, Scholastic Inc.

I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably romantic if he'd had he courage to look into my face and say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boot in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. "I haven't stopped.

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Eye, Long, Waiting
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.101, Scholastic Inc.

I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.

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Car, Feelings, Hitting
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.499, Scholastic Inc.

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

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Fall, Grace, Disease
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

Oh my God. What in—” I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. “Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.

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Beautiful, Mom, Two
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.359, Scholastic Inc.

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