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The Shiver Trilogy consists of three books: 'Shiver,' 'Linger,' and 'Forever.' These novels explore the complex relationship between a girl and a werewolf, set against the backdrop of a small town and the supernatural.
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“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.”
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“Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.”
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“Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.”
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“There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.”
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“Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.”
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“Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.”
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“if you were really busy, you could almost forget about it, but when you stopped moving, it was murder”
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“I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just looked at me like I was — nothing. An annoyance, maybe.”
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“It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.”
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“Cole made a hissing sound. "Are you inside yet? God bless America and all her sons. What is taking you so long?" The front door was locked. "Here, talk to Grace" "Mommy isn't going to give a different answer than Daddy," Cole said, but I handed her the phone anyway.”
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“I always listen to you. Except when I don't.”
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“I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.”
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“Can I ask you a question?" "You already have." He paused, considering. "Can I ask you two questions, then?" "You already have.”
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“I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so much emotion that he had to spill it out every window of the house.”
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“It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.”
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“Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.”
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“Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry.”
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“Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.”
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“I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.”
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“I'm always sure of what I do," he said. "Sometimes I was just never sure there was supposed to be a happy ending.”
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“sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.”
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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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“I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.”
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“Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.”
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“Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.”
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“It was about falling asleep with Sam's chest pressed against my back so I could feel his heart slow to match mine. It was about growing up and realizing that the feel of his arms around me, the smell of him when he was sleeping, the sound of his breathing -- that was home and everything I wanted at the end of the day. It wasn't the same as being with him and we were awake.”
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“I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.”
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“But love isn't quantifiable on paper.”
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“Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.”
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“What do you mean? Grace Brisbane, you do not mean that you're not going back home again. Tell me that this was just because you were momentarily angry at them for grounding you. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night. But don't tell me you think it's forever!”
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“Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.”
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“Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They rolled and whirled in misshapen circles on the counter surface. "Here are our options." My ears rang. "We have more than one?" "Three, precisely," Cole said. He pointed to each in turn. "That one makes you a wolf. That one makes me a wolf. That one gives us both seizures.”
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“I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.”
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“It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!”
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“It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.”
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“Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his.”
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“She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.”
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“World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread.”
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“We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.”
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“The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.”
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