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“The world needs more love at first sight.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Sight #Needs #World
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“Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.†Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Self #Grace #Overestimate
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“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Love #Shiver #Who You Are
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“People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Kindness #People #Should
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“One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Stars #Numbers #Depth
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“I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Knowing #Hated #Wanted
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“Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don’t (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don’t have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Baby #Self Confidence #Thinking
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“It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Party #Silence #Tasers
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“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Tree #Reason #Humans
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“I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Dream #Would Be #Good Times
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“I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Dad #Grateful #Smile Because
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“Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Thoughtful #Color #Glasses
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“...she made her home in between the pages of books.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Book #Home #Pages
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“a life is measured by moments like these”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Live In The Moment #Life Is #Moments
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“names are a way to keep people in your mind”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Names #People #Mind
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“Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Suicidal #Risk #Needs
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“You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Song #Writing #Looks
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“I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about the way he looks at me – with respect – and I think that’s probably worth more than anything.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Thinking #Touching #Way
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“She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Girl #Men #Land
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“I lost a horse today.' 'That sounds careless. What happened?' 'She jumped off a cliff.' 'A cliff! Is that normal?”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Horse #Normal #Sound
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“I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Crushed
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“Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Stupid #Obstacles #Sometimes
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“What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Baby #Eye #Opportunity
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“Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Lunch #Doubt #Guilt
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“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
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“I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Tired #Wake Up #Want
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“I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Way
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“Clutter is my natural habitat.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Habitat #Natural #Clutter
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“Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Numbers #Said
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“Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.”
-- Maggie Stiefvater
#Stupid #Seven #Fourteen
