Darline > Darline's Quotes

“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird

“Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked.

Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?"
Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I’ve been dead for seven years, that’s as warm as they get.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Her name's Chainsaw," replied Ronan, without looking up. Then: "Noah. You're creepy as hell back there.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Oh! Your hand is cold." Ashley cupped her fingers against her shirt to warm them.
"I've been dead for seven years," Noah said. "That's as warm as they get.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“What if I implement a no-pets policy at the apartment?” “Well, hell, man,” Ronan replied, with a savage smile, “you can’t just throw out Noah like that.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Without Blue there to make him stronger, without Gansey there to make him human, without Ronan there to make him belong, Noah was a frightening thing.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery."
"You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks," Gansey mused as he began to walk again.
Blue blinked. "What?"
Over his shoulder, Gansey said, "Next to the wall plug.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“My name is Sam Cortland... and I will not be afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling."
"It's called being dead," Ronan replied.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Adam looked up at Ronan. “I know it was you,” he said. “I figured it out. The rent.”
He held Ronan’s gaze for just a moment longer, until something inside Ronan unwound and he almost said something.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish. Adam was different since making the bargain with Cabeswater. Stronger, Stranger, farther away. It was hard not to stare at the odd elegant lines of his face.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“I mean, honestly? That's wife material. Like, three kids and a dog material. If she looked at me the way she looks at you, my IUD would have shot out like a party popper.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Their characteristics are well-known. They're beautiful -- when they're not astoundingly ugly. They're both goddesses for men to worship, and demons for them to flee. They adore children, sometimes to the point of unhealthy obsession. They have a strong association with nature, from which they're often assumed to draw magical power. Their anger is a terrible thing to behold, and all the more fearsome because anything can spark it; the rules by which these creatures operate are not those of rational men. They are creatures of fanciful whim, and they never, ever, can be understood.

I'm talking, of course, about women.”
― Marie Brennan

“I cry out for every girl who was told to comb her hair and wash the mud from her face. To keep herself contained. To be ashamed of her voice, her hair, her flesh. To be quiet and good and nice. Girls are not nice. Girls are wild and fierce and powerful, and I will not let anyone take that away. Not ever again.”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns

“If you stay home all the time, stories never happen. Sometimes you have to break something in order for the story to leak out through the cracks.”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns

“That’s because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole,”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway