Quotes From "The Dream Thieves" By Maggie Stiefvater

Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window! " Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead! Maggie Stiefvater

Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.' What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine, " Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.'' They never ask the right questions, ' Ronan replied. Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing where he looked like both the dangerous Ronan he was now and the cheerier Ronan he had been when Gansey first met him." Hold on, " Gansey told Adam. Then, to Ronan: "Why would he be?"" No reason. Just no reason." Ronan slammed his door. Gansey asked Adam, "Sorry. You still have that suit for the party?" Adam's response was buried in the sound of the second-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window! " Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead! . Maggie Stiefvater

What?” he asked in a low voice.“ You looked like you spent your last joy bill.” He hissed, “What does that even mean?”“ I don’t know. I was just trying it out.”“ Well, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t make sense. And anyway, I’ve got plenty of joy bills. Loads.”Helen said, “What’s happening there on your phone?”“ A very small joy debit.” His older sister’s smile shone brightly. “You see, it does work. Now, did you or did you not need to get out of that room?” Gansey inclined his head in slight acknowledgment. Gansey siblings knew each other well.“ You’re so welcome, ” Helen said. “Let me know if you need me to write a joy check.”“ I really don’t think it works. Maggie Stiefvater

Noah had wandered down the aisle, but now he gleefully returned with a snow globe. He stood behind Ronan until he pushed off the shelf to admire the atrocity. "Glitter, " whispered Noah reverentially, giving it a shake. Maggie Stiefvater

What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah. "Noah took a personal day."" I lost.." Noah struggled for words. "There wasn't air. It went away. The - the line! "" The ley line?" Gansey asked. Noah nodded once, a sloppy thing that was sort of a shrug at the same time. "There was nothing .. left for me." Releasing Ronan, he shook out his hands. "You're welcome, man, " Ronan snarled. He still couldn't feel his toes." Thanks. I didn't mean to .. you were there. Oh, the glitter."" Yes, " Ronan replied crossly. "The glitter. Maggie Stiefvater

At this, Gansey rolled over onto his back and folded his hands on his chest. He wore a salmon polo shirt, which, in Blue’s opinion, was far more hellish than anything they’d discussed to this point. Maggie Stiefvater

I’m not using any word, ” Ronan said. The annoying thing about Ronan was always that he was angry when everyone else was calm, and calm when everyone else was angry. Because Blue was ready to bust a vein, his voice was utterly pacific. “I’m just telling you I’m not going. Maybe it’s wrong, maybe it’s not. My soul’s in enough peril as it is. Maggie Stiefvater

Why Anglo-Saxon history?” At the time it had struck the Gray Man as a foolish and unanswerable question. The things that drew him to that time period were surely unconscious and many-headed, diffused through his blood from a lifetime of influences. Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. Maggie Stiefvater

Reality's what other people dream for you. Maggie Stiefvater

You don't have to do this, " Ronan said." There isn't anything else, man."" There's reality." Kavinsky laughed the word. "Reality! Reality's what other people dream for you."" Reality's where other people are, " Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms. "What's here, K? Nothing! No one! "" Jus Maggie Stiefvater

The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around. Maggie Stiefvater

You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs. Maggie Stiefvater

When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers. Maggie Stiefvater

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement? Maggie Stiefvater

As they walked, a sudden rush of wind hurled low across the grass, bringing with it the scent of moving water and rocks hidden in shadows, and Blue thrilled again and again with the knowledge that magic was real, magic was real, magic was real. Maggie Stiefvater

Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't, " Persephone said." The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical. Maggie Stiefvater

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency. Maggie Stiefvater

They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything hadn't seen anyone as rich as the Aglionby boys. They were untouchable, immune to life's troubles. Only death couldn't be swiped away by a credit card. Maggie Stiefvater

Fuck the past. This was the present. Maggie Stiefvater

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams. Maggie Stiefvater

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again. Maggie Stiefvater

There were many versions of Gansey, but this one had been rare since the introduction of Adam's taming presence. It was also Ronan's favorite. It was the opposite of Gansey's most public face, which was pure control enclosed in a paper-thin wrapper of academia. But this version of Gansey was Gansey the boy. This was the Gansey who bought the Camaro, the Gansey who asked Ronan to teach him to fight, the Gansey who contained every wild spark so that it wouldn't show up in other versions. Was it the shield beneath the lake that had unleashed it? Orla's orange bikini? The bashed-up remains of his rebuilt Henrietta and the fake IDs they'd returned to? Ronan didn't really care. All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning. . Maggie Stiefvater

His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys. Maggie Stiefvater

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love. Maggie Stiefvater

No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So many homilies on faith were ruined once you no longer required it for belief. Maggie Stiefvater

I wish you could be kissed, Jane, ” he said. “Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.” He flailed an arm toward the stars. Maggie Stiefvater

In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood. Maggie Stiefvater

It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old. Maggie Stiefvater

Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn't feel bad about that. It's not your bear. Maggie Stiefvater

All food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious. Maggie Stiefvater

Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. Chainsaw eyed herself briefly before hiding on the other side of Ronan's neck; Adam did the same, but without the hiding-in- Ronan's-neck bit. Even Blue looked less fanciful that usual, the lighting rendering her lampshade dress and spiky hair as a melancholy Pierrot. Maggie Stiefvater

Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan’s lack of heat tolerance. “I didn’t say anything.” “Whatever, man, ” Ronan replied. “I know that face. You were born in hell, you’re used to it. Maggie Stiefvater

- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that. Maggie Stiefvater

Because Niall Lynch was the biggest liar of them all, and he’d stuffed all of that into his eldest son. There was not much difference between a lie and a secret. Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played. Maggie Stiefvater

All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches – that’s what will be left at the end of it all. Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan, " Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling."" It's called being dead, " Ronan replied. Maggie Stiefvater

He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.' Sorry, ' Persephone suggested.' Pardon?' She murmured, 'You should say sorry when you kill something.' It took him a moment to realize she meant the rose. 'It was dying anyway.'' Dying and dead are different words.' Shamed, Adam muttered an apology.... Maggie Stiefvater

His face went somber for half a second, and then it dissolved into an absolutely wonderful and fearless laugh. The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway. Maggie Stiefvater

As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, “I know why you’re mad.” Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. “Tell me then, prophet.” Noah said, “It’s not my job to tell other people’s secrets. Maggie Stiefvater

I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting. Maggie Stiefvater

Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one. Maggie Stiefvater