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Laziness is the natural child of success. Who, after struggling up the ladder, feels like building another ladder? The view is already good.
From Mister Impossible
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Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"

Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!
From The Dream Thieves
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right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
From Shiver
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Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
From Linger
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Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.
From The Raven Boys
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Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Dangerously emo."

"Thoughtful."

"Feng shui."

I laughed so hard I snorted. "How do you get feng shui out of 'thoughtful'?"

"You know, because in feng shui, you arrange furniture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways." Sam shrugged. "To make you calm. Zenlike. Or something. I'm not one hundred percent sure how it all works, besides the thoughtful part.
From Shiver
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Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.
From The Raven Boys
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I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
From Forever
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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 again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.
From Linger
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Did you get notes for me?"
"No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
From The Raven Boys
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Although Adam suspected there was a god, he also suspected it didn't actually matter.
From Blue Lily, Lily Blue
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Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
From The Raven Boys
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She asked, "Okay, wait, so why is Ronan at the library?"
"Cramming," Noah said. "For an exam on Monday."
It was the nicest thing Blue had ever heard of Ronan doing.
From The Raven Boys
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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 to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.
From Forever
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But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold anymore and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting.
From The Raven Boys
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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I am so, so alive.
From The Scorpio Races
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We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."

"This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.
From The Raven Boys
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Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.
This was the important thing.
It had always been the important thing.
This was what it was to be Adam.
From The Raven Boys
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Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.
From The Raven Boys
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Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects a corpse. The soul. The ... animus. The quiddity of it.'
'Gansey, seriously,' Adam interrupted, to Blue's relief. 'Nobody knows what quiddity is.'
'The whatness, Adam. Whatever it is that makes a person who they are.
From The Raven Boys
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She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.
From Shiver
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Laziness is the natural child of success. Who, after struggling up the ladder, feels like building another ladder? The view is already good.
From Mister Impossible
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Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"

Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!
From The Dream Thieves
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right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
From Shiver
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Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
From Linger
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Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.
From The Raven Boys
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Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Dangerously emo."

"Thoughtful."

"Feng shui."

I laughed so hard I snorted. "How do you get feng shui out of 'thoughtful'?"

"You know, because in feng shui, you arrange furniture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways." Sam shrugged. "To make you calm. Zenlike. Or something. I'm not one hundred percent sure how it all works, besides the thoughtful part.
From Shiver
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Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.
From The Raven Boys
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I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
From Forever
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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 again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.
From Linger
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Did you get notes for me?"
"No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
From The Raven Boys
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Although Adam suspected there was a god, he also suspected it didn't actually matter.
From Blue Lily, Lily Blue
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Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
From The Raven Boys
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She asked, "Okay, wait, so why is Ronan at the library?"
"Cramming," Noah said. "For an exam on Monday."
It was the nicest thing Blue had ever heard of Ronan doing.
From The Raven Boys
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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 to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.
From Forever
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But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold anymore and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting.
From The Raven Boys
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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I am so, so alive.
From The Scorpio Races
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We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."

"This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.
From The Raven Boys
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Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.
This was the important thing.
It had always been the important thing.
This was what it was to be Adam.
From The Raven Boys
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Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.
From The Raven Boys
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Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects a corpse. The soul. The ... animus. The quiddity of it.'
'Gansey, seriously,' Adam interrupted, to Blue's relief. 'Nobody knows what quiddity is.'
'The whatness, Adam. Whatever it is that makes a person who they are.
From The Raven Boys
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She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.
From Shiver
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Laziness is the natural child of success. Who, after struggling up the ladder, feels like building another ladder? The view is already good.
From Mister Impossible
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Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"

Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!
From The Dream Thieves
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right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
From Shiver
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Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
From Linger
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Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.
From The Raven Boys
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Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Dangerously emo."

"Thoughtful."

"Feng shui."

I laughed so hard I snorted. "How do you get feng shui out of 'thoughtful'?"

"You know, because in feng shui, you arrange furniture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways." Sam shrugged. "To make you calm. Zenlike. Or something. I'm not one hundred percent sure how it all works, besides the thoughtful part.
From Shiver
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Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.
From The Raven Boys
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I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
From Forever
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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 again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.
From Linger
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Did you get notes for me?"
"No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
From The Raven Boys
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Although Adam suspected there was a god, he also suspected it didn't actually matter.
From Blue Lily, Lily Blue
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Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
From The Raven Boys
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She asked, "Okay, wait, so why is Ronan at the library?"
"Cramming," Noah said. "For an exam on Monday."
It was the nicest thing Blue had ever heard of Ronan doing.
From The Raven Boys
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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 to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.
From Forever
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But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold anymore and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting.
From The Raven Boys
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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I am so, so alive.
From The Scorpio Races
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We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."

"This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.
From The Raven Boys
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Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.
This was the important thing.
It had always been the important thing.
This was what it was to be Adam.
From The Raven Boys
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Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.
From The Raven Boys
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Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects a corpse. The soul. The ... animus. The quiddity of it.'
'Gansey, seriously,' Adam interrupted, to Blue's relief. 'Nobody knows what quiddity is.'
'The whatness, Adam. Whatever it is that makes a person who they are.
From The Raven Boys
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She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.
From Shiver
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