They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, Gansey felt like his life was made up of a dozen hours that he could never forget.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Please just tell me where you are. His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Ganseys were creatures of habit, and he wanted Adam here, and he wanted Noah here, and he wanted everyone to like him,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I never taught him to break his thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“It had been a long time ago, but also, it was no time at all. Sometimes, Gansey felt like his life was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Then Gansey said, very slowly, “Ronan, you’re never going to talk to Jane like that again.” Both Adam and Blue stared at… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause"… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery." "You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks," Gansey… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments - and then roared to deafening life.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t stand it, all of this inside him. In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying you're wrong, Declan," Gansey said. His ear throbbed where it had been boxed. He could feel Ronan's pulse crashing… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“What?” he asked in a low voice. “You looked like you spent your last joy bill.” He hissed, “What does that even… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand between the driver's seat and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Did you get notes for me?" "No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The way Gansey saw it was this: If you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“Once upon a time, there lived a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really the story was:… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the whole. We… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“At least when he was at Aglionby he could turn over his papers to see the grades, concrete proof of his success at something.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“That's the one." In Puck Connolly's custody. That might be the last I see of that jacket.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?” ”I did this time didn’t I?” “Say yes.” “Yes. Conditionally yes.”…... …”What… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustang up my arm.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
