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“How arrogant we are, Adam thought, to deliver babies who can't walk or talk or feed themselves. How sure we are that nothing will destroy them before they can take care of themselves. How fragile they were, how easily abandoned and neglected and beaten and hated. Prey animals were born afraid.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“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

“I know you are not the same as him, Adam said. But in my head, everything is always so tangled. I am such a damaged thing.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

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