Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
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"Ronan said, "I'm always straight."Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told."
"Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing."
"Is this thing safe?""Safe as life," Gansey replied."
"Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam."
"We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.""This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you."
"Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast."
"But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold anymore and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting."
"Please just tell me where you are.His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain."
"She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The sort that normally came in a black bottle, and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA."
"His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat."
"This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby,” Calla said."
"When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away."
"Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead."
"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."
"There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel."
"Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere."
"They didn't even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldn't be deciding who deserved to live or die."
"Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing."
"In her small voice, Persephone said, "I have nothing to add." After a moment of consideration, she added, however, "If you are going to punch someone, don't put your thumb inside your fist. It would be a shame to break it."
"Is that all?" she whispered.Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is."
"I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam."
"The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy."
"Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on."
"The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern."
"Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted."