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I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girlFrom summer she is made my lovely summer girlI'd love...

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They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without ...

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There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...

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I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going ...

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Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about ...

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Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

I didn't know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i'd forgotten. Sort of like...

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Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

Images barraged him. Connections darted electric. Veins. Roots. Forked lightning. Tributaries. Branc...

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Was it okay? Adam had turned down so many offers of help from Gansey. Money for school, money for fo...

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Blue Lily

She stood on the ledge of his smile and looked over the edge.

Blue Lily

Then she called Gansey.It rang twice, three times, and then: "Hello?"He sounded boyish and ordinary....

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Blue Lily

Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen t...

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What was a kiss without a kiss?" It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, everything...

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Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, tha...

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Adam stopped by one of the beasts near the front; its shoulder was taller than him, its great skull ...

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Blue Lily

They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.

Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...

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Adam mused, “Incorruptus. I never thought anyone would use that word to describe Lynch.” Ronan looke...

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Adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome. Even in a group, he was slowly perfecting the...

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Blue Lily

Instead, though, as he drew nearer, his mind kept drifting back to Gansey's voice in the cave the da...

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But I'm not dead," Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

I always listen to you. Except when I don't.

Forever

Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn't forget ...

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I don't believe in raw evil." Noah said, "It doesn't care if you believe in it

Blue Lily

I just don't— Ronan. My ears are bleeding!"Ronan turned down the music.

Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slow...

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It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they di...

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(Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?...

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Blue Lily

Piper’s lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you ...

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Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.

Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship...

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Forever

I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning ev...

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I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, ...

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I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of ...

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...

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It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing a...

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If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more ...

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My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...

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Forever

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

And so you know what I did with those sad things? I put them in boxes. I put the sad things in the b...

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In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to se...

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Forever

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

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

Forever

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and y...

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I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning...

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While I pressed the tissue to my face, Beck said, “Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empt...

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People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number.

Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each o...

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Forever

Cole,” I said, “do you think I’m lovable?”“As in ‘cuddly and’?”“As in ‘able to be loved,’” I said.Co...

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It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort o...

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Voicemail #1: “Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked....

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

He was every angel and every devil.

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck w...

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People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.

The Raven Boys

Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore...

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I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.

Forever

Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, ...

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Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd ...

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We were miles away from our real lives.

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that mad...

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I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. "For crying out loud," he said....

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...He kissed me again, farther up my neck, and I pushed him back against the wall.My mind searched f...

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Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

A symptom," Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something...

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Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

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

Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

When did you get so smart?"He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm pas...

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Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without m...

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Linger

What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.

Linger

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs ab...

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Linger

I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the ...

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I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swi...

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Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

Linger

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have l...

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He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were ...

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You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division i...

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There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very go...

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...she made her home in between the pages of books.

When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the pr...

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Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose...

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Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.

Linger

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper

This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people d...

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I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my h...

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I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the...

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i want to remember

Linger

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were go...

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I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl,I’d l...

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Grace: Outside, deep in the woods, I heard a long keening wail, and then another, as the wolves bega...

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Shiver

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic...

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Shiver

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Maggie Stiefvater

Writer

Born: 1981-11-18

Died: N/A

Maggie Stiefvater (born November 18, 1981) is an American writer of young-adult fiction, especially urban fantasy.More