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Good morning. You have a moment? It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order to have my moment back. I make a note to use the method in the future.

Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order to have my moment back. I make a note to use the method in the future.

Maggie Stiefvater
Morning, Clever, Order
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.78, Scholastic UK

Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They rolled and whirled in misshapen circles on the counter surface. "Here are our options." My ears rang. "We have more than one?" "Three, precisely," Cole said. He pointed to each in turn. "That one makes you a wolf. That one makes me a wolf. That one gives us both seizures.

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Islands, Hands, Circles
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.867, Scholastic Inc.

It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.

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Mother, Brother, Fighting
Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.80, Scholastic UK

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

Maggie Stiefvater
Crushed, Sideburns
Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp.

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Dream, Song, Heart
Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.34, North Star Editions, Inc.

Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

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Party, Cutting, Circles
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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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Boys, Ravens, Blue
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.336, Scholastic Inc.

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

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Giving, Sun, Pauses
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

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Fans, Dresses, Lamps
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me." Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen. "Were you talking to me or Ronan?" "Either. I'm flexible." Blue made a small, terrible noise. "I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water.

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Eye, Talking, Psychics
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

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Dream, Night, Pausing
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.

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Home, Reality, Wanted
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.132, Scholastic Inc.

In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic..." Take me away from here, take me away from here.

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Girl, Voice, Hands
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: "Take me with you." He woke up.

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Girl, Eye, Scary
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

It could kill you," Maura said. Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.

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Two, People, Awkward
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.

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Stars, Saws, Enough
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.53, Scholastic UK

In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

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Jobs, Blue, Feet

He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else's charcoal grill.

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Heart, July, Sweat
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.212, Scholastic Inc.

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

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Boys, Library, Public Library
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

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Agony, Way, Path
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.67, Scholastic Inc.

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

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Long, Language, Enough
Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.291, Scholastic Inc.

This car was a very pretty lie.

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Lying, Car
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.256, Scholastic UK

Dying's a boring side effect.

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Dying, Sides, Boring
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.340, Scholastic UK

She couldn't make it untrue.

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

Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.

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Blue, Self, Defense
Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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