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Adam was beginning to realize he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all of him. The scent of Cabeswater, all trees after rain, drifted past Adam, and he realized that while he'd been looking at Ronan, Ronan had been looking at him.


Maggie Stiefvater

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Adam finally sat down on one of the pews. Laying his cheek against the smooth back of it, he looked ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Saw him where?"
"While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts."
This seemed to sa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he me...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I’m going in,” Gansey said as Ronan sat down on the step beside Adam. As Gansey shut the door be...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Adam kissed him, it was every mile per hour Ronan had ever gone over the speed limit. It was ev...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Because Adam practised at many things, Adam was good at many things, but this – what was it even c...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam retreated to sit beside Mary as Ronan stretched out on the pew, rubbing out the dingy plan with...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Granddad said I needed to get some muscles because I was looking gay these days. No, he didn't reall...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Now Gansey grinned, the warmth of discovery starting to course through him. "So, pop quiz, Mr Parris...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Bastard,” she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenl...
ROBIN HOBB As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Haven’t you heard of being hung, drawn, and quartered?”
Blue asked, “Is it as painful as ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he ...
SOL LUCKMAN Ronan pointed at the cart. "Get in there."
"What?"
He just continued pointing.
Adam ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It should have been impossible. No one should have been able to dream any of these thing, much less ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiabl...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was totally destructive. He was hard to handle. You couldn't manage him at all. He would scream a...
AMY THOMPSON Inside, they pretended they would dream, but they did not. They sprawled on the living room sofa and...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah.
"Noah took a personal day....
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The ocean burned.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan was angry-every one of his emotions that wasn't happiness was anger.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam twisted off the lid. Inside was a colorless lotion that smelled of mist and moss. Replacing the...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
JOE GRANT Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Looking at the numbers he had a great year. It was a really good deal for him.
CODY VANDERFORD In all the years you have known him, he never appeared the way he appeared at that recital to you?
MICHAEL BREWER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgresse...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I never taught him to break his thumb."
"That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was well-known he was stalking her. I think that she had been seeing him briefly but then had dec...
HEATHER CHULU Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then ho...
ALICE HOFFMAN There was a time when I had all of his attention and loved it. As much as I wanted him to leave me a...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their exi...
C.S. LEWIS Adam Lambert is one of my best friends. I've known him since he was an understudy in 'Wicked...
ALESSANDRA TORRESANI It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I r...
DAVID MAISEL No homework. I got suspended,” Blue replied.
“Get the fuck out,” Ronan said, but with ad...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I'm not asking him to stay, Ronan thought. Only to come back.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep," Ronan Lynch said.
Adam Parrish, curled over himself...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You know, if I had a cobra, and I was looking at him to buy him. He's had seven other owners, and he...
KEN HUTCHERSON Where the hell is Ronan?” Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered sin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I've known Chris since he was 15. I've coached him on many teams. He earned all of this and he deser...
LOU VAIRO And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own st...
MICHAEL ENDE Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteri...
MILAN KUNDERA It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h...
FRANZ KAFKA He is the strongest, most caring person I've ever known. At a time when he was going through unspeak...
DAVID NEAL She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h...
JULIET MARILLIER His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y...
CAROLYN JEWEL You would've liked him had you known him. He was a really good guy.
DAN BLANKE Gansey could see precisely the argument that it was heaving toward. Adam would shoot something cool ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATERIEFVATER Although she was ashamed to admit it now, the darkness in him had been the largest part of his allur...
J.R. WARD She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood an...
JOHN WILLIAMS Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but alw...
PAUL HOFFMAN They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South ...
W. H. AUDEN Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them...
EMILY RAPP He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ...
JOSEPH ROTH If Robert Blake got in his car after his wife was killed he would have blood on him. (Blake) had no ...
ERIC DUBIN He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It woul...
STEPHENIE MEYER Dreamers are to be classified as weapons.
Ronan already knew he was a weapon ; but he was tryi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Making Ronan Lynch smile felt as charged as making a bargain with Cabeswater. These were not forces ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Light, or something like light, reflected off it onto Ronan's chin and cheeks, rendering him stark a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What an impossible and miraculous and hideous thing this was. An ugly plan hatched by an ugly boy no...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER MANIBUS
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Do you know what keeps poor people down, Mr. Parrish? It’s not a lack of income. It’s a poverty ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was shaking on the bench. It made me cold looking at him.
FLIP SAUNDERS I asked him how he was before he left after the last ballgame. He said he was fine, ... That's all t...
MIKE SHERMAN Ever since I've known him, I've known first and foremost that he's just a great hitter. Every level ...
BRAD HAWPE All of us will miss him at Yankee Stadium, ... We were all uplifted for having known him.
RUDY GIULIANI Adam has a good defense in front of him that is playing better and he has been playing better as the...
JOE ALBERICI And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo...
J.K. ROWLING Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the...
PAULO COELHO Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK There were many versions of Gansey, but this one had been rare since the introduction of Adam's tami...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Eddie's been huge for us all season. It's all about him. He was the biggest part of this win tonight...
ALEX STEEN You could tell at first that he didn't know what his role was going to be when he got here. But once...
BOSS BAILEY If I'd have known he was going to do that, hell, I'd have let him go. But he was in a lot of trouble...
JACK SANDERS I didn't get to talk to him, I just kept looking at him. Elvis had all this greasy hair and pimples ...
JOHNNY RIVERS I didn't know if it was out, ... I was looking at the ball, and then watching him. He looked like he...
BEN BROUSSARD Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had ...
MELANIE BENJAMIN I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to f...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON Nicholas looked down at his battered shoes and said nothing. He did indeed wish to be contrary—at ...
TRENTON LEE STEWART He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious...
CASSANDRA CLARE He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure spec...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Are you going to lock your shitbox?"
Adam said, "No point. Hooligans got in anyway."
The h...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER ...beer makes people deaf...
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I misse...
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Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Vol...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flickering lights
anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
i'm still waking up
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it)
Your life, fearful and immense and blossomi...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER I walk through the seasons and always the birds
are singing and screaming and keening for love<...
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you're giving up your wings and inheriting my c...
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And thi...
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One thousands ways to cry
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Danger...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
Losing myself to frigid regret<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER ..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.'
She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

MAGGIE STIEFVATER Hope hurt more than the cold.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.”
Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER What do you eat?"
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Where do you live?"
Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving"
"That's not re...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?"
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."

"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER