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“I've already had to wait so long."
"How long?" Luce asked.
"Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“If you two were going to be that obvious about it, why didn't you guys come down in your Team Daniel and Team Miles T-shirts?"
"We should order those," Shelby said.
"Mine's in the laundry," Arriane said.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“He's not-" Daniel started to say. He watched a red-tailed hawk land in an oak tree over their heads. "He's not good enough for you."
Luce had heard people say that line a thousand times before. It was what everyone always said. Not good enough. But when the words passed Daniel's lips, they sounded important, even somehow true and relevant, not vague and dismissive the way the phrase had always sounded to her in the past.
"Well, then," she said in a quiet voice, "who is?"
Daniel put his hands on his hips. He laughed to himself for a long time. "I don't know," he said finally. "That's a terrific question."
Not exactly the answer Luce was looking for. "It's not like it's that hard," she said, stuffing her hands into her pockets because she wanted to reach out for him. "To be good enough for me."
Daniel's eyes looked like they were falling, all the violet that had been in them a moment before turned a deep, dark gray. "Yes," he said. "Yes, it is.”
― Lauren Kate

“We meet. We always meet, somehow we're always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I try to distance myself from you. It never matters. You always find me.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“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.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.��
“His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?�� Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Her name's Chainsaw," replied Ronan, without looking up. Then: "Noah. You're creepy as hell back there.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I'm sorry it wasn't puppies.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“He's a pit bull," Adam said.
"I know some really nice pit bulls."
"He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him."
"How noble.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making sure your kid doesn't know he's fake that you can't tell when you're supposed to stop."
"Mom, I found you and Calla wrapping my presents when I was, like, six."
"It was a metaphor, Blue."
"A metaphor's supposed to clarify by providing an example. That didn't clarify."
"Do you know what I mean or not?"
"What you mean is that you're sorry you didn't tell me about Butternut."
Maura glowered at the door as if Calla stood behind it. "I wish you wouldn't call him that."
"If you'd been the one to tell me about him, then I wouldn't be using what Calla told me."
"Fair enough.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Persephone said, “What an unpleasant young man.��
Calla let the curtains drift shut. She remarked, “I got his license plate number.��
“I hope he never finds what he’s looking for,�� Maura said.
Retrieving her two cards from the table, Persephone said, a little regretfully, “He’s trying awfully hard. I rather think he’ll find something.��
Maura whirled toward Blue. “Blue, if you ever see that man again, you just walk the other way.��
“No,�� Calla corrected. “Kick him in the nuts. Then run the other way.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

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

“Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye.��
Gansey moved to the opposite side of the bed with surprising swiftness, glancing at Adam and away again as quickly.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“So I take it you and Gansey get along, then?�� Maura’s expression was annoyingly knowing.
��Mom.��
“Orla told me about his muscle car,�� Maura continued. Her voice was still angry and artificially bright. The fact that Blue was well aware that she’d earned it made the sting of it even worse. “You aren’t planning on kissing him, are you?��
“Mom, that will never happen,�� Blue assured her. “You did meet him, didn’t you?��
“I wasn’t sure if driving an old, loud Camaro was the male equivalent of shredding your T-shirts and gluing cardboard trees to your bedroom walls.��
“Trust me,�� Blue said. “Gansey and I are nothing like each other. And they aren’t cardboard. They’re repurposed canvas.��
“The environment breathes a sigh of relief.�� Maura attempted another sip of her drink; wrinkling her nose, she shot a glare at Persephone. Persephone looked martyred. After a pause, Maura noted, in a slightly softer voice, “I’m not entirely happy about you’re getting in a car without air bags.��
��Our car doesn’t have air bags,�� Blue pointed out.
Maura picked a long strand of Persephone’s hair from the rim of her glass. “Yes, but you always take your bike.��
Blue stood up. She suspected that the green fuzz of the sofa was now adhered to the back of her leggings. “Can I go now? Am I in trouble?��
“You are in trouble. I told you to stay away from him and you didn’t,�� Maura said. “I just haven’t decided what to do about it yet. My feelings are hurt. I’ve consulted with several people who tell me that I’m within my rights to feel hurt. Do teenagers still get grounded? Did that only happen in the eighties?��
“I’ll be very angry if you ground me,�� Blue said, still wobbly from her mother’s unfamiliar displeasure. “I’ll probably rebel and climb out my window with a bedsheet rope.��
Her mother rubbed a hand over her face. Her anger had completely burned itself out. “You’re well into it, aren’t you? That didn’t take long.��
“If you don’t tell me not to see them, I don’t have to disobey you,�� Blue suggested.
“This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby,�� Calla said.
Maura sighed. “Blue, I know you’re not an idiot. It’s just, sometimes smart people do dumb things.��
Calla growled, “Don’t be one of them.��
“Persephone?�� asked Maura.
In her small voice, Persephone said, “I have nothing left 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.��
“Okay,�� Blue said hurriedly. “I’m out.��
“You could at least say sorry,�� Maura said. “Pretend like I have some power over you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“He'd chosen his weapon well: only the truth, untempered by kindness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“The approval of someone like him, who clearly cared for no one, seemed like it would be worth more.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys