Ronan Quotes

“He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“No homework. I got suspended,” Blue replied.
“Get the fuck out,” Ronan said, but with admiration. “Sargent, you asshole.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing where he looked like both the dangerous Ronan he was now and the cheerier Ronan he had been when Gansey first met him.

"Hold on," Gansey told Adam. Then, to Ronan: "Why would he be?"

"No reason. Just no reason." Ronan slammed his door.

Gansey asked Adam, "Sorry. You still have that suit for the party?"

Adam's response was buried in the sound of the second-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"

Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I never taught him to break his thumb."
"That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent."
"Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Saw him where?"
"While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts."
This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?"
"God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough.”
― 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

“The buck stops here," Ronan said, pulling up the hand brake. "Home shit home.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Now Gansey grinned, the warmth of discovery starting to course through him. "So, pop quiz, Mr Parrish. Three things that appear in the vicinity of ley lines?"
"Black dogs," Adam said indulgently. "Demonic presences."
"Camaros," Ronan inserted.
Gansey continued as if he hadn't spoken. "And ghosts. Ronan, queue up the evidence if you would.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Where the hell is Ronan?” Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered since mankind developed speech. As he stepped out of the science building, he tipped his head backwards, as if Ronan Lynch – dreamer of dreams, fighter of men, skipper of classes – might somehow be flying overhead.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“Gansey strode between the pews as Adam’s father stared at him. He went directly to the bench, straight up to the judge. Now that he stood directly beside Adam, not looking at him, Adam could see that he was a little out of breath. Ronan, behind him, was as well. They had run.

For him.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“The demon kept pulling him unconscious, and in those short bursts of blackness, the dreamer snatched at light, and when he swam back to consciousness, he thrust the dream into reality. He shaped them into flapping creatures and earthbound stars and flaming crowns and golden notes that sang by themselves and mint leaves scattered across the blood-streaked pavement and scraps of paper with jagged handwriting on them: Unguibus et rostro.
But he was dying.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“Do you understand? If they die, I die, too.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?”
― Amanda Ashley, Dead Perfect

“You don't have to hide your crazy from me, ma belle. Show it, and I promise to feast on it”
― Rina Kent, Vicious Prince

“Love isn't shit. It's not worth a damn thing. But time, attention, priority... those things are real, and until a man gives you those, don't give him the time of day, beautiful.”
― Sara Cate, Eyes on Me

“Declan was there. He was curled just next to Ronan, an arm draped over his side. They thought he was sleeping, but when Niall’s foot set off a floorboard’s squeal, his eyes came straight open. He looked at his parents so directly that they squirmed, consciences guilty. But of course Declan didn’t know- that was simply his ordinary expression, even as a little kid.
“He was lonely,” Declan explained.
“How do you know?” Niall asked.
Declan carefully moved away from the child to join his parents. “He was crying”
Niall put his hand in Declan’s curls, trying to sound light, unfettered. “I didn’t hear anything.”
Declan’s voice was somewhat haughty. “He was very quiet about it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Greywaren

“You think I'm crazy?" My voice is barely above a whisper, and I hate it.
"I don't think it. I know it." This time he does run his finger over my lips as if he's smearing my lipstick, just like that first time he touched me in the library. "And I want every last bit of your craziness.”
― Rina Kent, Vicious Prince

“What a dreadful thought," Gansey observed suddenly. "Ronan among this crowd."
For a fleeting moment, Adam could imagine it: the brocade curtains in decaying flames, the decorated consorts screaming from beneath the harpsichord, Ronan standing among it all saying Fuck Washington.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“It said, Qui facit per alium facit per se.

Greenmantle knew the proverb.

He who does a thing by the agency of another does it himself.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“She didn’t bother to say, But you’ll be waiting in darkness. Nor did she say, If I vanish immediately into the lake, you’ll have to find your way out of here sightless. Because he’d already known both these things when he had given it to her.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“Reality's where other people are," Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms. "What's here, K? Nothing! No one!"
"Just us."
There was a heavy understanding in that statement, amplified by the dream. I know what you are, Kavinsky had said.
"That's not enough," Ronan replied.
"Don't say Dick Gansey, man. Do not say it. He is never going to be with you. And don't tell me you don't swing that way, man. I'm in your head."
"That's not what Gansey is to me," Ronan said.
"You didn't say you don't swing that way."
Ronan was silent. Thunder growled under his feet. "No, I didn't.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“It's like you want to engrave yourself on his skin."
"I do not."
"Yeah, you do." Kim pokes my shoulders. "He's the same, you know. He looks at you like you're the greatest and most fascinating riddle of all.”
― Rina Kent, Vicious Prince

“I've always hated other people's secrets, but hers are that forbidden fruits I can't ignore, whose temptation I can't resists.
I want to claw into Teal's skin, and not only physically — I want to invade her head and see past it, inside it, everywhere in it.”
― Rina Kent, Vicious Prince

“I never allowed myself addictions before, because addictions screw you up and mess with your logic and your head.
But as I hug Ronan, I know I have no choice in this addiction. It's the type you just surrender to. You fall into it and let yourself float.”
― Rina Kent, Vicious Prince

“He did not say that the only true nightmare was not being able to do something and that this, at least, was something.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“I'm completely fine with Ronan finding me and punishing me and everything in between.
Because the truth is, he's not normal, and neither am I.
And maybe, just maybe, that's completely fine.”
― Rina Kent, Vicious Prince

“He had only just been making out with Ronan, and his hands would have nonetheless murdered him while Adam watched.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King