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I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.

I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.

Maggie Stiefvater
Winter, Waiting, Looks
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.413, Scholastic Inc.

It matters, like this: I belong to Malvern, you don't.

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Matter

Could others hold him?" His face remains the same. "There are no others. You're the only one." I swallow. "I can hold him.

Maggie Stiefvater
Faces, Remains, I Can

Shhhhhh, shhhhhh, says the sea, but I don't believe her.

Maggie Stiefvater
Believe, Sea, Don't Believe
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.121, Scholastic UK

One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam

Maggie Stiefvater
Men, Magic, One Day

...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

Maggie Stiefvater
Two, Long, Upset
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

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Molotov Cocktail, Cocktails, Fence
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.879, Scholastic Inc.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

Maggie Stiefvater
Echoes, Sound, Stones
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)”, p.16, Scholastic Inc.

It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.

Maggie Stiefvater
Running, Memories, Kissing
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see.

Maggie Stiefvater
Eye, Assumption, Left
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.322, Scholastic UK

I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.

Maggie Stiefvater
Age, Bottles, Habitat

I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He Says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck.

Maggie Stiefvater
Moving, Eye, Winning

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

Maggie Stiefvater
Horse, Sea, Ears
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.37, Scholastic UK

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

Maggie Stiefvater
Night, Giving, Saint
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.39, Scholastic UK

I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?

Maggie Stiefvater
Horse, Sound, Today

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

Maggie Stiefvater
Boys, Thinking, Irritation
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.62, Scholastic UK

A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder.

Maggie Stiefvater
Numbers, Body, Emotion

Did you just tell that man you went potty on yourself?" "You. Shut. Up,"I hissed back furiously and chucked the scrubs at his head. "Hurry up before they find out I didn't wet myself. You seriously owe me.

Maggie Stiefvater
Men, Shut Up, Potty

She could've looked at the tiny miracles in front of her: my feet, my hands, my fingers, the shape of my shoulders beneath my jacket, my human body, but she only stared at my eyes. The wind whipped again, through the trees, but it had no force, no power over me. The cold bit at my fingers, but they stayed fingers. "Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something." "Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

Maggie Stiefvater
Eye, Hands, Wind
"Shiver". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, August 1, 2009.

I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.

Maggie Stiefvater
Horse, Years, Bed

Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.

Maggie Stiefvater
Sea, Sky, Doe

I might never ride Corr again. I don't know who I am without him.

Maggie Stiefvater
Who I Am, Might, Knows

There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day. You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.

Maggie Stiefvater
Race, People, Trying

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

Maggie Stiefvater
Eye, Islands, Smell
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.98, Scholastic UK

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

Maggie Stiefvater
Dad, Vices, Mum

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