Quotes From "The Raven Boys" By Maggie Stiefvater

When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The Blue that was before her stood inches from a boy in an Aglionby sweater. There was a slight stoop to his posture, and his shoulders were spattered darkly with rain. It was his fingers that Blue felt on her face. He touched her cheek with the backs of his fingers. Tears coursed down the other Blue's face. Though some strange magic, Blue could feel them on her face as well. She could feel, too, sick, rising misery she'd felt in the churchyard, the grief that felt bigger than her. The other Blue's tears seemed endless. One drop slid after another, each following an identical path down her cheeks. The boy in the Aglionby sweater leaned his forehead against Blue's. She felt the pressure of his skin against hers, and suddenly she could smell mint. It'll be okay. Gansey told the other Blue. She could tell that he was afraid. It'll be okay. Impossibly, Blue realized that this other Blue was crying because she loved Gansey. And that the reason Gansey touched her like that, his fingers so careful with her, was because he knew that her kiss could kill him. She could feel how badly the other Blue wanted to kiss him, even as she dreaded it. Though she couldn't understand why, her real, present day memories in the tree cavity were clouded with other false memories of their lips nearly touching, a life this other Blue had already lived. Okay, I'm ready- Gansey's voice caught, just a little. Blue, kiss me. . Maggie Stiefvater

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam. Maggie Stiefvater

But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold anymore and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting. Maggie Stiefvater

She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The sort that normally came in a black bottle, and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA. Maggie Stiefvater

His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat. Maggie Stiefvater

This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby, ” Calla said. Maggie Stiefvater

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. Maggie Stiefvater

Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead. Maggie Stiefvater

A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth. Maggie Stiefvater

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel. Maggie Stiefvater

Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere. Maggie Stiefvater

Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing. Maggie Stiefvater

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves. Maggie Stiefvater

In her small voice, Persephone said, "I have nothing to add." After a moment of consideration, she added, however, "If you are going to punch someone, don't put your thumb inside your fist. It would be a shame to break it. Maggie Stiefvater

Some people envied Ronan’s money. Adam envied his time. To be as rich as Ronan was to be able to go to school and do nothing else, to have luxurious swathes of time in which to study and write papers and sleep. Adam wouldn’t admit it to anyone, least of all Gansey, but he was tired. He was tired of squeezing homework in between his part-time jobs, of squeezing in sleep, squeezing in the hunt for Glendower. The jobs felt like so much wasted time: In five years, no one would care if he’d worked at a trailer factory. They’d only care if he’d graduated from Aglionby with perfect grades, or if he’d found Glendower, or if he was still alive. And Ronan didn’t have to worry about any of that. Maggie Stiefvater

Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is. Maggie Stiefvater

I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam. Maggie Stiefvater

The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy. Maggie Stiefvater

Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on. Maggie Stiefvater

The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern. Maggie Stiefvater

Please just tell me where you are. His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain. Maggie Stiefvater

...all she could think was 'This is how close a kiss is'. It felt every bit as dangerous as she'd imagined. Maggie Stiefvater

Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing. Maggie Stiefvater

They didn't even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldn't be deciding who deserved to live or die. Maggie Stiefvater

He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road. Maggie Stiefvater

Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--"" Drugs?"" Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?"" No. But maybe rituals"" Drugs might be better. Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted. Maggie Stiefvater

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain. Maggie Stiefvater

People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper. Maggie Stiefvater

Because it wasn't merely that the trees were speaking to them. It was that the trees themselves were sentient beings, capable of watching their movements. Was it only the trees in this strange wood, or did every tree observe their movements? Had they always been trying to speak to them? There was no way of knowing, either, if the trees were good of bad, if they lived or hatred humans, if they had principles or compassion. They were like aliens, Gansey thought. Aliens that we have treated very badly for a very long time. Maggie Stiefvater

She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. That sort that normally came in a black bottle and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA. Maggie Stiefvater