The Raven Boys Quotes

“The soul is vulnerable when it is outside the mind.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Blue opened and closed her chilly fists. The top edges of her fingerless gloves were fraying; she’d done a bad job knitting them last year, but they had a certain trashy chic to them. If she hadn’t been so vain, Blue could’ve worn the boring but functional gloves she’d been given for Christmas. But she was vain, so instead she had her fraying fingerless gloves, infinitely cooler though also colder , and no one to see them but Neeve and the dead.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a scholar obsessed. Some of the books weren’t in English. Some of the books were dictionaries for the languages that some of the other books were in. Some of the books were actually Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editions. Adam felt the familiar pang. Not jealousy, just wanting. One day, he’d have enough money to have a place like this. A place that looked on the outside like Adam looked on the inside.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Adam felt the familiar pang. Not jealousy, just wanting. One day, he’d have enough money to have a place like this. A place that looked on the outside like Adam looked on the inside.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“The world turns out its pockets for you, boy.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“You and I, we don’t walk the lines. We just follow the echoes.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“She had thought dead was something more permanent, or at least something more obviously not alive.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“You know what that place was ?" Ronan asked. "a castration palace. You date that girl, you should send her your nuts instead of flowers".
"You're a Neanderthal.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“No one marked April 25 on their calendar. In fact, most of the living were unaware that St. Mark even had a day named in his honor. But the dead remembered.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“A clue to the building’s original identity was painted on the eastern side of the building: MONMOUTH MANUFACTURING. But for all their research, neither Gansey nor Adam had been able to figure out precisely what Monmouth had manufactured. Something that had required twenty-five-foot ceilings and wide open spaces; something that had left moisture stains on the floor and gouges in the brick walls. Something that the world no longer needed.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“What did you see?” Blue asked. “How did he die?”
Neeve didn’t take her eyes off Maura. “I saw him. And then he disappeared. Into absolutely nothing.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“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.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“He wore his hatred like a cruel second skin.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“There are three kinds of secrets. One is the sort everyone knows about, the sort you need at least two people for. One to keep it. One to never know. The second is a harder kind of secret: one you keep from yourself.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Unlike Ronan, Adam's Aglionby jumper was second-hand, but he'd taken great care to be certain it was impeccable. He was slim and tall, with dusty hair unevenly cropped above a fine-boned, tanned face. He was a sepia photograph.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“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.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“On the other end of the phone, his roommate Ronan Lynch replied, “You missed World Hist. I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
Gansey (...) asked, “Did you get notes for me?”
“No,” Ronan replied. “I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“At the sight of Gansey's Aglionby sweater, Adam's father had charged out, firing on all cylinders. For weeks after that, Ronan had called Gansey "the S.R.F.," where the S stood for Soft, the R stood for Rich, and the F for something else.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“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, The Raven Boys

“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, The Raven Boys

“A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn’t change how you lived in the present.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Blue felt as if their very presence robbed something from her.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Blue had once intercepted a set of e-mails on her mother’s computer; one of Maura’s male clients had ardently begged Maura to bring Blue “and whatever else you cannot live without” to his row house in Baltimore. In the reply, Maura had sternly informed him that this was not a possibility, for many reasons, chief of which that she would not leave Henrietta and least of which that she didn’t know if he was an ax murderer. He had e-mailed back only a sad-face smiley. Blue always wondered what became of him.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Mientras no alcances el éxito, a nadie le interesa saber cómo has salido de la miseria”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I want you to know," Noah said, pressing the carved bone against his Adam's apple, hard, as if it would squeeze the words from him, "I was...”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Blue.” It was Ronan’s voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their heads toward him. His head was cocked in a way that Gansey recognized as dangerous. Something in his eyes was sharp as he stared at Blue. He asked, “Do you know Gansey?” Gansey remembered Ronan leaning against the Pig, playing the recording over and over again. Blue looked defensive under their stares. She said reluctantly, “Only his name.” With his fingers linked loosely together, elbows on his knees, Ronan leaned forward across Adam to be closer to Blue. He could be unbelievably threatening. “And how is it,” he asked, “you came to know Gansey’s name?” To her credit, Blue didn’t back down. Her ears were pink, but she said, “First of all, get out of my face.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Blue, largely against her will, glanced to the booth he pointed to. Three boys sat at it: one was smudgy, just as he said, with a rumpled, faded look about his person, like his body had been laundered too many times. The one who'd hit the light was handsome and his head was shaved; a soldier in a war where the enemy was everyone else. And the third was -- elegant. It was not the right word for him, but it was close. He was fine boned and a little fragile looking, with blue eyes pretty enough for a girl.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“His code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. It wasn't that he didn't condone them; he couldn't understand them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Look," Adam said. He rubbed a finger over the dust of the back window. Next to a Blink-182 sticker was an Aglionby decal.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Did you get Mom a birthday present?' Helen asked.
'Yes,' Gansey replied. 'Myself.'
Helen said, 'The gift that keeps on giving.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys