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#1

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: blue-sargent, the-raven-boys

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#2

“They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: gansey

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#3

“When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: adam, gansey, power, raven-boys

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#4

“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: deep-thoughts, humans, love, maggie-stiefvater, nature, the-raven-boys, trees

1455 likes

#5

“Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: blue, gansey, life, raven-boys, safe

1509 likes

#6

“My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#7

“Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: fate, humor

748 likes

#8

“In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#9

“He's a pit bull," Adam said.
"I know some really nice pit bulls."
"He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him."
"How noble.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: adam, blue, lol, pit-bulls, raven-boys

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#10

“Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: blue, description, gansy

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#11

“People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: different, thoughtful

138 likes

#12

“Above him, the stars were brutal and clear.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: adam-parrish

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#13

“He'd chosen his weapon well: only the truth, untempered by kindness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#14

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

69 likes

#15

“Ronan didn't sound very interested, but that was part of the Ronan Lynch brand. It was impossible to tell how deep his disinterest truly was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: disinterest

60 likes

#16

“His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: longing

65 likes

#17

“The poor are sad they're poor, Adam had once mused, and turns out the rich are sad they're rich.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: life-lessons, maggie-stiefvater, the-raven-boys

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#18

“I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: adam, gansey, raven-boys, raven-cycle, sad

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#19

“He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had something to do with the knowledge that his parents’ house wasn’t truly home anymore — if it had ever been — and something to do with the realization that they hadn’t changed; he had.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#20

“Sometimes, Gansey felt like his life was made up of a dozen hours that he could never forget.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: gansey

39 likes

#21

“Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

34 likes

#22

“Matchy matchy”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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#23

“His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: heart, logic

33 likes

#24

“You can be right in principle and still wrong in approach.”
― Karen M. McManus, You'll Be the Death of Me

30 likes

#25

“Nobody should be that good at so many different things. It doesn’t build character.”
― Karen M. McManus, You'll Be the Death of Me

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#26

“Silence falls as we get lost in our own regrets.”
― Karen M. McManus, You'll Be the Death of Me

tags: death, murder, mystery, regret, silence, you-ll-be-the-death-of-me

12 likes

#27

“We all make mistakes, right? And almost never see the fallout coming.”
― Karen M. McManus, You'll Be the Death of Me

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#28

“It was just so...permanent.
Choosing a class became choosing a discipline, and choosing a discipline became choosing a career, and choosing a career became choosing a life, and how was anyone supposed to do that, when you only had one?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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#29

“She was trouble, all right. But nothing I couldn’t handle.”
― Melanie Harlow, Ignite

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#30

“That’s how I want to be loved—big and crazy. Because that’s how I love.”
― Melanie Harlow, Ignite

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