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I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.
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kiss
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love
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If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.
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Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told."
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lies
love
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This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things. I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.
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linger
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
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So, Grace, how's school?" I asked myself. Dad nodded, eyes on the baby koala now struggling in the guest's arms. "Oh, it's fine," I continued, and Dad made a mumbling noise of agreement. I added, "Nothing special, aside from the load of pandas they brought in, and the teachers abandoning us to cannibalistic savages-" I paused to see if I'd caught his attention yet, then pressed on. "The whole building caught fire, then I failed drama, and..
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You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way." "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em."
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raven-boys
gansey
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He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.
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Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.
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love
ronan-lynch
smile
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People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
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people
ya
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.
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I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back." "Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended."
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kiss
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surprise
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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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You can be just friends with people, you know," Orla said. "I think it's crazy how you're in love with all those raven boys." Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending..
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There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.
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When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
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raven-boys
gansey
power
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Maggie Stiefvater |
e3d8a98
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A secret is a strange thing. There are three kinds of secrets. One is the sort everyone knows about, the sort you need at least two people for. One to keep it. One to never know. The second is a harder kind of secret: one you keep from yourself. Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid. And th..
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As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
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shiver
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I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep," Ronan Lynch said. Adam Parrish, curled over himself in a pair of battered, greasy coveralls, asked, "Do you?" "Maybe I dreamt you," he said. "Thanks for the straight teeth, then," Adam replied."
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ronan-lynch
the-raven-cycle
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.
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gwenllian
the-raven-cycle
the-raven-king
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7c0b24e
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You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?"
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love
richard-gansey
the-raven-king
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Maggie Stiefvater |
ededd07
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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
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inspirational
poetic
sweet
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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I am so, so alive.
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the-scorpio-races
inspirational
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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In the hall stood Richard Campbell Gansey III in his school uniform and overcoat and scarf and gloves, looking like someone from another world. Behind him was Ronan Lynch, his damn tie knotted right for once and his shirt tucked in. Humiliation and joy warred furiously inside Adam. Gansey strode between the pews as Adam's father stared at him. He went directly to the bench, straight up to the judge. Now that he stood directly beside Adam, n..
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead
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sam-roth
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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Ronan, taking in Blue's posture and Gansey below, observed, "If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye." Gansey moved to the opposite side of the bed with surprising swiftness, glancing at Adam and away again as quickly."
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gansey
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the-raven-boys
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us." Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied, "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told." Blue said, "Okay."
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the-raven-cycle
the-raven-boys
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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I've been thinking a lot about Adam Parrish and his band of merry men," Mr. Gray admitted. "And this dangerous world they tread." "That's a strange way of putting it. I would have said Richard Gansey and his band of merry men." He inclined his head as if he could see her point of view as well, even if he didn't share it."
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Gansey turned to Adam, finally. He was still wearing his glorious kingly face, Richard Campbell Gansey III, white knight, but his eyes were uncertain. Is this okay? Was it okay? Adam had turned down so many offers of help from Gansey. Money for school, money for food, money for rent. Pity and charity, Adam had thought. For so long, he'd wanted Gansey to see him as an equal, but it was possible that all this time, the only person who neede..
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked his heartbeat askew.
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cars-at-night
fenders
sexy-cars
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Maggie Stiefvater |
e5d222c
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I gave Paul a withering look but the truth was I was curious as hell. First of all, to find out what Sullivan wanted. And second, to see what a teacher's room looked like. I'd always sort of figured they came out during the day to teach classes and then got stored in shoe boxes under someone's bed until they were needed again. (James)
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Interesting choice," Sullivan said. He slid his gaze over to Paul, who was drumming his fingers on the table in a manic, caffeine-inspired way and blinking a lot. Paul wasn't out-and-out singing along with the king of the dead, but he might as well have put out a big neon sign saying "How's My Driving? Ask Me About My Nerves: 1-800-WIG-N-OUT." --James"
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It shouldn't have happened at all, but their friendship had been cemented in only the time it took to get to school that morning - Adam demonstrating how to fasten the Camaro's ground wire more securely, Gansey lifting Adam's bike halfway into the trunk so they could ride to school together, Adam confessing he worked at a mechanic's to put himself through Aglionby, and Gansey turning to the passenger seat and asking, "What do you know about..
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the-dream-thieves
richard-gansey-iii
the-raven-cycle
maggie-stiefvater
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs. "Say something," Gansey said. "That bell." "Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey."
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richard-gansey
the-raven-king
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Maggie Stiefvater |
ba80808
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So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love. So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness ..
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sam
waiting
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Maggie Stiefvater |
399bad8
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What happened to your face?" Blue asked. Adam shrugged ruefully. Either he or Ronan smelled like a parking garage. His voice was self-deprecating. "Do you think it makes me look tougher?" What it did was make him look more fragile and dirty, somehow, like a teacup unearthed from the soil, but Blue didn't say that. Ronan said, "It makes you look like a loser." "Ronan," said Gansey. shouted Maura."
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richard-gansey-iii
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the-raven-cycle
the-raven-boys
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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Not like this. At least you have a place to go. 'End of the world' ... What is your , Adam? I mean, is there something about my place that's too repugnant for you to imagine living there? Why is it that everything kind I do is pity to you? Everything is charity. Well, here it is: I'm of tiptoeing around your principles." "God, I'm sick of your condescension, Gansey," Adam said. "Don't try to make me feel stupid. Who whips out ? Don't pr..
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the-raven-cycle
the-raven-boys
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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He had had his own feelings hurt over and over by Adam, even when Adam had meant no harm. Some of the worst fractures had appeared because Adam hadn't realized the he was causing them.
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ow
richard-gansey-iii
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Maggie Stiefvater |
6cad617
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Jagiello, Michael E. [IMD]; Dray, Hunter [IMD]; Eng, Edward [IMD]; Yu, Linda [IMD]; Locarno, Chelsey [IMD]; Raverta, Kristen S. [IMD]; Labaudiniere, Margaux [IMD]; Harris, Abigail O. [IMD]; Kellogg, Kenyon [IMD]; Bragdon, Chris [IMD]; Mason, Sydney C [IMD]; Schetman, Elizabeth [IMD]; Martin, Lauren [IMD]; Ferrara, Mark M. [IMD]; Glennon, Sara [IMD]; Romano, Christian J. [IMD]; Kieran, Michaela E. [IMD]; Holdstock, Evan [IMD]; Barrile, David..
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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I am being perfectly fucking civil."
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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Dying's a boring side effect.
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
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Maggie Stiefvater |
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His second secret was Adam Parrish.
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