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• Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.

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  Girl, Lying, Book

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

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  Daughter, Distance, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.195, Scholastic UK

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• I couldn't think of anything to say. I was idiotically entranced by the way he said "Grace." The tone of it. The way his lips formed the vowels. The timbre of his voice stuck in my head like music.

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  Thinking, Voice, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.211, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once upon a time I would’ve leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for me.

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  Mom, Opportunity, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• You'll have to go commando." "Is there any other way?

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  Way, Commandos

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

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  Moving, Dark, World

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic UK

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• and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away

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  Miles, Thousand, Stills

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.285, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  Pain, Get Over

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• Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.

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  Intimate

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.380, Scholastic Inc.

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• the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

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  Memories, Singing, Scent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.285, Scholastic Inc.

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• sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

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  Hurt, Escaping, Skins

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.214, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  Silence, Gone, Way

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.304, Scholastic Inc.

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• Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed

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  Gift Of Time, Exposed

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• i never pegged you for a fan of the obvious, sam", "i'm not, otherwise, i would've said, 'hey, shouldn't you be in school ?'", "touche

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  School, Fans, Hey

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• Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.

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  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.299, Scholastic Inc.

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• She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.

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  Lying, Shapes, Lines

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.

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  Mean, Race, Achievement

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.398, Scholastic Inc.

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• When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter that a thousand snares were laid for us as soon as we left this moment. All that mattered was this: our noses touching, the softness of his mouth, the ache inside me.

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  Touching, Would Be, Noses

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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• In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

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  Dad, Grateful, Looks

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• I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go." Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. "These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.

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  Eye, Hands, Yellow

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.250, Scholastic Inc.

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• How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.

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  Sweet, Lying, Eye

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• I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.

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  Boys, Thinking, Names

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.

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  Eye, Kissing, Hands

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.

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  Sideburns

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

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• The Boy should watch where he’s going,” she said. “Rachel should not manifest in doorways,” I replied.

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  Boys, Watches, Doorways

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.405, Scholastic Inc.

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