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Maggie Stiefvater

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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de r...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ (...) Le tiré de la camisa, queriendo besa su piel.
Él se apartó y se irguió.
-¿En la...
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JOHN GREEN Siempre había pensado que dejar de creer causaba una cicatriz imborrable en el lugar donde estuvo l...
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HIROMI KAWAKAMI (...) Y la alegría lo llenó de la cabeza a los pies, alegría de vivir y alegría de ser él mismo...
MICHAEL ENDE Mary me dijo: ahora ya eres una mujer, y eso me hizo llorar. Entonces ella me abrazó y me consoló ...
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HERMANN HESSE —¿Y por qué es necesario tener valor? —le preguntó el gato con tono de indiferencia.
—...
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LAURA RESTREPO Del presente recordaremos sólo aquello que la memoria quiera conservar, pero ella no es libre, se t...
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C.S. LEWIS Una de las mejores razones, si no hubiera otra, para la abolición del dinero, es precisamente que s...
EDWARD BELLAMY Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Las mujeres que se fanatizaron con la liberación femenina fueron las que encontraron una manera mar...
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EDUARDO SACHERI Y él había suspirado entonces y ella le había dicho <>. Y él le había respondido <>...
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ITALO CALVINO El pa­sa­do había sido bo­rra­do, se había ol­vi­da­do que había sido bo­rra­do y de ese...
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Pescuezo: ¿Qué es el amor?
Toro: …….e...
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MIGUEL DELIBES Ese día Naty llegó con más manzanas y otra novedad al trabajo:
—Ayer fui a que me leyeran ...
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electrific...
RACHEL HAWKINS Yo he visto estos solitarios apretujados en increíbles racimos en los andenes y en los coches del t...
ARTURO USLAR PIETRI El paraguas individual es la imágen favorita de mi padre cuando quiere caracterizar el tiempo en qu...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa...
OCTAVIO PAZ Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE Me prometiste que nunca me follarías, pero ¿qué fue lo de anoche? Ni una palabra, ni un «te quie...
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FERNANDO SAVATER Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada...
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J.K. ROWLING El cielo nunca le había parecido tan cielo, y el mundo jamás había sido tan mundo.
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JOHN GREEN Hacía tiempo que había aprendido a gozar de las cosas sencillas, cosas que no se podían comprar.
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SáNDOR MáRAI Polly había llorado tanto que se sentía deshidratada. El llanto juvenil es una cosa y el llanto ad...
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C.J. MAHANEY Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla...
SáNDOR MáRAI Hay libros que tenemos a nuestro lado veinte años sin leerlos, libros de los que no nos alejamos, q...
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anonymous doors
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Danger...
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Stretching my hand to you
Losing myself to frigid regret<...
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She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just insi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

MAGGIE STIEFVATER Hope hurt more than the cold.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.”
Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial threa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER So, Grace, how's school?" I asked myself.
Dad nodded, eyes on the baby koala now struggling in...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Books are more real when you read them outside.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What do you eat?"
"Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You'...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he me...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The world needs more love at first sight.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Where do you live?"
Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving"
"That's not re...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go awa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I’m going in,” Gansey said as Ronan sat down on the step beside Adam. As Gansey shut the door be...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?"
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."

"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER