The Raven Boys Quotes
"Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love."
"The predictions that came out of 300 Fox Way were unspecific, but undeniably true."
"For a long time, this bothered Blue. The warning was specific, certainly, but in the way of a fairy tale."
"Blue concluded that her mother’s tarot cards were just a pack of playing cards."
"No one in the house ever really doubted that Blue was destined to kill her true love with a kiss."
"It was freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrived."
"The world turns out its pockets for you, boy."
"It was easier to believe that they wouldn’t give themselves up to Gansey rather than that they didn’t exist at all."
"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve, Blue. Either you’re his true love," Neeve said, "or you killed him."
"Most girls, when they’re interested in a guy, will sit with them for free."
"If you got a loan, you could stop working until after college."
"That sounds like either the beginning of a torture session or a music video."
"Well, amplification. That’s all I was thinking. Something to make it louder and easier to follow."
"You’re just jealous ’cause you didn’t find one, too."
"I don’t think you should talk to people about it anymore."
"You’re the page of cups, Maura had told her."
"Look at all that potential she holds in that cup."
"Success meant nothing to Adam if he hadn’t done it for himself."
"You don’t know, Gansey. You don’t know anything about money."
"I hope he never finds what he’s looking for."
"He’s trying awfully hard. I rather think he’ll find something."
"It was how every evening went if a meal hadn’t been planned in advance."
"I'm not pretty. Not in the way that Aglionby boys seem to like."
"I heard a voice. It was a whisper. I won’t forget what it said. It said: ‘You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.’"
"Once Arthur knew the grail existed, how could he not look for it?"
"What with all this running around, don’t forget our movie night on Friday, Blue."
"Because it’s like we’re going into someone’s house."
"If you wake the line, they’ll be in your debt."
"My whole life is the ‘difficult part.’ Nobody believes in what my family does."
"His clammy hands, his pristine room, his unchanging smudgy face. He had been dead as long as they’d known him."
"What Gansey needed out of life was facts, things he could write in his journal, things he could state twice and underline, no matter how improbable those facts were."
"Nothing was the truth until he could put his hands on it."
"Ronan’s smile cut his face, but he looked kinder than Blue had ever seen him, like the raven in his hand was his heart, finally laid bare."
"Numbers are easy for me," Neeve said. "They came first, really."
"Adam wasn’t happy to have a day off from Aglionby."
"I’m not really an outsider," Gansey said. "I just look it. Like you."
"People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper."
"I’m sick of tiptoeing around your principles."
"This is the way I talk. I’m sorry your father never taught you the meaning of repugnant."
"He was too busy smashing your head against the wall of your trailer while you apologized for being alive."
"Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year."
"They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them."
"Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him."
"I didn’t get much sleep. I need sleep for quality spikes."
"The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master."
"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."
"Magic was real, Glendower was real, and something was starting."
"No, I’m serious. This place creeps me the hell out. Can we go?"
"I guess now would be a good time to tell you, I took Chainsaw out of my dreams."