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Maggie Stiefvater

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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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Topic: Success
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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Topic: Funny
right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
From Shiver
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Topic: Happiness
Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
From Linger
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Topic: Life
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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Topic: Funny
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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Topic: Funny
Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.
From The Raven Boys
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Topic: Life
I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
From Forever
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Topic: Funny
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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Topic: Hope
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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Topic: Death, Funny
Although Adam suspected there was a god, he also suspected it didn't actually matter.
From Blue Lily, Lily Blue
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Topic: Religion
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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Topic: Funny
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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Topic: Funny
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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Topic: Relationships
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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Topic: Happiness
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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Topic: Filmmaking
I am so, so alive.
From The Scorpio Races
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Topic: Inspirational
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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Topic: Funny
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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Topic: Inspirational
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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Topic: Funny
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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Topic: Philosophical
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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Topic: Death
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
From Shiver
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
From Linger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
From Forever
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Did you get notes for me?"
"No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death, Funny
Although Adam suspected there was a god, he also suspected it didn't actually matter.
From Blue Lily, Lily Blue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Filmmaking
I am so, so alive.
From The Scorpio Races
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
From Shiver
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
From Linger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I always listen to you. Except when I don't.
From Forever
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Did you get notes for me?"
"No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death, Funny
Although Adam suspected there was a god, he also suspected it didn't actually matter.
From Blue Lily, Lily Blue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
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.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Filmmaking
I am so, so alive.
From The Scorpio Races
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.
From The Raven Boys
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death