Scorpio Races Quotes

• My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that she and my father bathed me in sugar for three days to wash it off. I try to behave, but I always go back to the vinegar.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Father, Trying

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• I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He Says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Eye, Winning

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• It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Today, Firsts, November

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Rest Of Your Life, Remember

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.67, Scholastic UK

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• I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick.' Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Weakness, Looks, Puck

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.313, Scholastic UK

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• Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I'm utterly still; I feel my pulse tap several times against his lips, and then he releases my hand. "For luck," he says. He takes Dove's lead from me. "Sean," I say, and he turns. I take his chin and kiss his lips, hard. I'm reminded, all of a sudden, of that first day on the beach, when I pulled his head from the water. "For luck," I say to his startled face.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beach, Kissing, Hands

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• Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Blood, Sand

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• They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grins at me. "And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mean, Burning, Cliffs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.310, Scholastic UK

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• And there is the girl. When I first see her and her dun mare from my vantage point on the cliff road, I am struck first not by the fact that she is a girl, but by the fact that she's in the ocean. it's the dreaded second day, the day people start to die, and no one will get close to the surf. But there she is, trotting up to the knee in the water. Fearless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Ocean, People

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• There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Horse, Ocean

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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