Maura Quotes

“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

“Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making sure your kid doesn't know he's fake that you can't tell when you're supposed to stop."
"Mom, I found you and Calla wrapping my presents when I was, like, six."
"It was a metaphor, Blue."
"A metaphor's supposed to clarify by providing an example. That didn't clarify."
"Do you know what I mean or not?"
"What you mean is that you're sorry you didn't tell me about Butternut."
Maura glowered at the door as if Calla stood behind it. "I wish you wouldn't call him that."
"If you'd been the one to tell me about him, then I wouldn't be using what Calla told me."
"Fair enough.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Drugs?"
"Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?"
"No. But maybe rituals."
"Drugs might be better.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die."
"Ah," said Calla, in a very, very knowing way. "Now I see."
"Don't psychoanalyse me," her mother said.
"I already have. And I say again, 'ah'.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“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, The Raven Boys

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