August Themes

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Picked by darkfireburning! From Maggie Stiefvater's "The Raven Boys"



1. the soon-to-be dead
2. the taciturn watcher
3. accurate but not specific
4. kiss her true love
5. that’s all there is
6. a symptom of insomnia
7. it was possible that death wasn’t for nothing after all
8. an academic piece of art
9. a secret killed your father
10. I thought we were clear that night was for sleeping
11. this boy seemed like a compromise
12. I would take all of you anywhere with me
13. a question that sounds better next to a trash can
14. the day I stop listening to the future
15. a pale fracture of lines
16. one of the other names
17. I know the corpse road
18. storm clouds: living things, moving towers
19. you will live when you should not
20. very aware of the skull beneath his skin
21. strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naïve longing
22. he looked kinder than she had ever seen him
23. a sacrifice isn’t always death
24. only learns enough to be superficially competent
25. everything you own right where you can see
26. there’s still worse than what you’ve got
27. sometimes it is not a process but a feeling
28. a life this other one had already lived
29. I would have no reason to love a human
30. at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing
31. rags to riches isn’t a story anyone wants to hear until after it’s