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“Ronan held out his hand; Adam took it. Ronan hauled him up, his mind all palm against palm against palm, thumb crossed over thumb, fingers pressed into wrist bone--and then Adam was facing him and he released his hand.

The ocean burned.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Depending on where you began the story, it was about Noah Czerny.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“Ronan hadn't known anything about who Adam was then and, if possible, he'd known even less about who he himself was, but as they drove away from the boy with the bicycle, this was how it had begun: Ronan leaning back against his seat and closing his eyes and sending up a simple, inexplicable, desperate prayer to God: Please.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk