Ronan Lynch Quotes

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His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep," Ronan Lynch said. Adam Parrish, curled over himself in a pair of battered, greasy coveralls, asked, "Do you?" "Maybe I dreamt you," he said. "Thanks for the straight teeth, then," Adam replied.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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I am being perfectly fucking civil.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Making Ronan Lynch smile felt as charged as making a bargain with Cabeswater. These were not forces to play with.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all of him.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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Where the hell is Ronan?" Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered since mankind developed speech.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Ronan Lynch β€” dreamer of dreams, fighter of men, skipper of classes β€” might
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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And here was Ronan, like a heart attack that never stopped.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Ronan Lynch loved to dream about light.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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The choice was death or hurting Adam, which wasn’t much of a choice at all.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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The ocean burned.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Did you get notes for me?" "No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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To think you could have been dreaming the cure for cancer," Blue said. "Look, Sargent," Ronan retorted, "I was gonna dream you some eye cream last night since clearly modern medicine's doing jack shit for you, but I nearly had my ass handed to me by a death snake from the fourth circle of dream hell, so you're welcome." Blue was appropriately touched. "Ah, thanks, man." "No problem, bro.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Inside, they pretended they would dream, but they did not. They sprawled on the living room sofa and Adam studied the tattoo that covered Ronan's back: all the sharp edges that hooked wondrously and fearfully into each other. 'Unguibus et rostro,' Adam said. Ronan put Adam's fingers to his mouth. He was never sleeping again.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every forbidden word possible, often in compound-word form. As Adam stared at his lap, penitent, he mused that there was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together, a black-painted poetry. It was far less hateful sounding than when he didn’t swear. Ronan finished with, β€œFor the love of … Parrish, take some care, this is not your mother’s 1971 Honda Civic.” Adam lifted his head and said, β€œThey didn’t start making the Civic until ’73.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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And Ronan Lynch looked like Niall Lynch, which was to say, he looked like an asshole.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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Her name's Chainsaw," replied Ronan, without looking up. Then: "Noah. You're creepy as hell back there.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-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!
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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I wasn't talking to you, Lynch. I need someone with a soul.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killer's hand'." "I can't believe Noah didn't stick around to help." "Sure you can. Never trust the dead.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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He was so much more dangerous when he wasn't angry.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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If it had a social security number, Ronan had fought with it.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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In the hall stood Richard Campbell Gansey III in his school uniform and overcoat and scarf and gloves, looking like someone from another world. Behind him was Ronan Lynch, his damn tie knotted right for once and his shirt tucked in. Humiliation and joy warred furiously inside Adam. 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.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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Wake up, you bastard," β€” he said. "You fucker. I can't believe that you would ..." And he began to cry.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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It should have been impossible. No one should have been able to dream any of these thing, much less all of them. But Adam had seen what Ronan could do. He'd read the dreamt will and ridden in the dreamt Camaro and been terrified by the dreamt night terror. It was possible that there were two gods in this church.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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Ronan was angry-every one of his emotions that wasn't happiness was anger.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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Dreamers are to be classified as weapons. Ronan already knew he was a weapon ; but he was trying to make up for it.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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The approval of someone like him, who clearly cared for no one, seemed like it would be worth more.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Ronan didn't sound very interested, but that was part of the Ronan Lynch brand. It was impossible to tell how deep his disinterest truly was.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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But one of the marvelous things about being Ronan Lynch was that no one ever expected him to do anything nice for anyone.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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Adam finally sat down on one of the pews. Laying his cheek against the smooth back of it, he looked at Ronan. Strangely enough, Ronan belonged here, too, just as he had at the Barns. This noisy, lush religion had created him just as much as his father's world of dreams; it seemed impossible for all of Ronan to exist in one person. Adam was beginning to realize that 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.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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She asked, "Okay, wait, so why is Ronan at the library?" "Cramming," Noah said. "For an exam on Monday." It was the nicest thing Blue had ever heard of Ronan doing.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Now Blue looked promptly judgmental, which was about two ticks off from her ordinary expression and one tick off from Ronan's.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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What an impossible and miraculous and hideous thing this was. An ugly plan hatched by an ugly boy now dreamt into ugly life. From dream to reality. How appropiate it was that Ronan, left to his own devices, manifested beautiful cars and beautiful birds and tenderhearted brothers, while Adam, when given the power, manifested a filthy string of perverse murders.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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Ronan Lynch, keeper of secrets, fighter of men, devil of a boy,
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us." Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied, "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told." Blue said, "Okay.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. He was a warring star full of endless possibilities, but in the end, as he dreamt in the backseat on the way to the Barns that night, he created only this...
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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Oh, it's good," Matthew said enthusiastically. It was not much of an endorsement. Matthew Lynch was a golden indiscriminate pit into which the world threw food. "It's real good. When I saw your phone number, I nearly shit myself! You could sell your phone, like, as new-in-box." "Don't fucking swear," Ronan said.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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Adam had seen many of Ronan's dreams made real by now, and he knew how savage and lovely and terrifying and whimsical they could be. But this girl was the most Ronan of any of them that he's seen. What a frightened monster she was.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Ostendes tuum et ostendam meus?
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Maggie Stiefvater
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He was clearly related to Declan: same nose, same dark eyebrows, same phenomenal teeth. But there was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this Lynch brother. This was not a rattlesnake hidden in the grass, but a deadly coral snake striped with warning colors. Everything about him was a warning: If this snake bit you, you had no one to blame but yourself.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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You look like a super villain with your familiar," Adam said. Ronan’s smile cut his face, but he looked kinder than Blue had ever seen him, like the raven in his hand was his heart, finally laid bare.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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On the outside, the three Lynch brothers appeared remarkably dissimilar: Declan, a butter-smooth politician; Ronan, a bull in a china-shop world; Matthew, a sunlit child. On the inside, the Lynch brothers were remarkably similar: They all loved cars, themselves, and each other.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Ronan hadn't known anything about who Adam was then and, if possible, he'd known even less about who he himself was, but as they drove away from the boy with the bicycle, this was how it had begun: Ronan leaning back against his seat and closing his eyes and sending up a simple, inexplicable, desperate prayer to God: Please.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1))
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It was possible that there were two gods in this church.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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Ronan and Declan Lynch were undeniably brothers, with the same dark brown hair and sharp nose, but Declan was solid where Ronan was brittle. Declan’s wide jaw and smile said Vote for me while Ronan’s buzzed head and thin mouth warned that this species was dangerous.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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Adam retreated to sit beside Mary as Ronan stretched out on the pew, rubbing out the dingy plan with the legs of his jeans. Something about his stillness on the pew and the funereal quality of the light reminded Adam of the effigy of Glendower they'd seen at the tomb. A king, sleeping. Adam couldn't imagine, though, the strange, wild kingdom that Ronan might rule. "Stop watching me," Ronan said, though his eyes were closed.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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The opposite of magical is not ordinary. The opposite of magical is mankind. The world is a neon sign; it says HUMANITY but everything is burnt out except MAN.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1))
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What do you mean Ronan's a magical entity? Is he a demon? Because this all makes sense if so.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Tamquam,’ said Adam. 'Wait,’ said Ronan. 'Tamquam,’ he said again, gently. 'Alter idem,’ Ronan said, and found himself alone.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1))
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Adam thinks he saw an apparition at his place." Ronan eyed Noah. "I'm seeing an apparition right now." Noah made a rude gesture [...].
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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Light, or something like light, reflected off it onto Ronan's chin and cheeks, rendering him stark and handsome and terrifying and someone else. Then he blew on it. His breath passed through the word, the mirror, the unwritten line. Adam heard a whisper in his ear. Something moved and stirred inside him. Ronan's eyelashes fluttered darkly. What are we doing -
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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He breathed in. He breathed out. He forgot how to exhale when he wasn't at home.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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Touch it," Blue whispered. "See if it's alive, too." "One of you two Poverty Twins should touch it," Ronan said. "I touched the last one." "What did you just call me?
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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Haven’t you heard of being hung, drawn, and quartered?” Blue asked, β€œIs it as painful as conversations with Ronan?” Gansey cast a glance over to Ronan, who was a small, indistinct form by the trees. Adam audibly swallowed a laugh. β€œDepends on if Ronan is sober,” Gansey answered. Adam asked, β€œWhat is he doing, anyway?” β€œPeeing.” β€œTrust Lynch to deface a place like this five minutes after getting here.” β€œDeface? Marking his territory.” β€œHe must own more of Virginia than your father, then.” β€œI don’t think he’s ever used an indoor toilet, now that I consider it.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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I want it too much," Adam said. That sentence, Ronan thought, was enough to undo all bad feeling he might have had meeting Adam's Harvard friends, all bad feeling about looking like a loser, all bad feeling about feeling stuck, all bad feeling, ever. Adam Parrish wanted him, and he wanted Adam Parrish.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1))
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I thought I was hallucinating,” Adam said, next to the lockers, an announcement droning on over the hall speakers. β€œRonan Lynch in the halls of Aglionby.” Ronan slammed his locker. He had not put anything in it and had no reason to open or close it, but he liked the satisfying bang of the metal down the hall, the way it drowned out the announcements. He did it again for good measure. β€œIs this a real conversation, Parrish?” Adam didn’t bother to reply. He merely exchanged three textbooks for his gym hoodie. Ronan wrenched his tie loose. β€œYou working after school?” β€œWith a dreamer.” He held Ronan’s gaze over his locker door. School had improved. Adam gently closed his locker. β€œI’m done at four thirty. If you’re up for brainstorming some repair of your dream forest. Unless you have homework.” β€œAsshole,” Ronan said. Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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We used to hear the stars, too. When people stopped talking, there was silence. Now you could shut every mouth on the planet and there’d still be a hum. Air-conditioning groaning from the vent beside you. Semi trucks hissing on a highway miles away. A plane complaining ten thousand feet above you. Silence is an extinct word. It bothers you, doesn’t it?
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Maggie Stiefvater (Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1))
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Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn't forget it on mornings like this oneβ€”fall fog rising out of the fields and lifting in front of the mountains, the Pig running cool and loud, Ronan climbing out of the passenger seat and knocking knuckles on the roof with teeth flashing, dewy grass misting the black toes of his shoes, bag slung over his blazer, narrow-eyed Adam bumping fists as they met on the sidewalk, boys around them laughing and calling to one another, making space for the three of them because this had been a thing for so long: Gansey-Lynch-Parrish.
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Maggie Stiefvater (Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3))
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What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2))
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As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry just like this. The quiet and the cold breeze on his throat would take him away and the dampness of his toes in his shoes and the scent of living creatures would keep him here. Within and without. He couldn’t tell if he was letting himself idolize this place or Ronan, and he wasn’t sure there was a difference. When he opened his eyes, he saw that Ronan was looking at him, as he had been looking at him for months. Adam looked back, as he had been looking back for months.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))
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You seem to have an extremely large bag today, Mr. Lynch,” Whelk said. β€œYou know what they say about men with large bags,” Ronan replied. "Ostendes tuum et ostendam meus?”" Gansey had no idea what Ronan had just said, but he was certain from Ronan’s smirk that it wasn’t entirely polite. Whelk’s expression confirmed Gansey’s suspicion, but he merely rapped on Ronan’s desk with his knuckles and moved off. β€œBeing a shit in Latin isn’t the way to an A,” Gansey said. Ronan’s smile was golden. β€œIt was last year.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1))
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A floorboard cracked; knuckles tapped once on the open door. Adam looked up to see Niall Lynch standing in the doorway. No, it was Ronan, face lit bright on one side, in stark shadow on the other, looking powerful and at ease with his thumbs tucked in the pockets of his jeans, leather bracelets looped over his wrist, feet bare. He wordlessly crossed the floor and sat beside Adam on the mattress. When he held out his hand, Adam put the model into it. β€œThis old thing,” Ronan said. He turned the front tyre, and again the music played out of it. They sat like that for a few minutes, as Ronan examined the car and turned each wheel to play a different tune. Adam watched how intently Ronan studied the seams, his eyelashes low over his light eyes. Ronan let out a breath, put the model down on the bed beside him, and kissed Adam. Once, when Adam had still lived in the trailer park, he had been pushing the lawn mower around the scraggly side yard when he realized that it was raining a mile away. He could smell it, the earthy scent of rain on dirt, but also the electric, restless smell of ozone. And he could see it: a hazy gray sheet of water blocking his view of the mountains. He could track the line of rain travelling across the vast dry field towards him. It was heavy and dark, and he knew he would get drenched if he stayed outside. It was coming from so far away that he had plenty of time to put the mower away and get under cover. Instead, though, he just stood there and watched it approach. Even at the last minute, as he heard the rain pounding the grass flat, he just stood there. He closed his eyes and let the storm soak him. That was this kiss. They kissed again. Adam felt it in more than his lips. Ronan sat back, his eyes closed, swallowing. Adam watched his chest rise and fall, his eyebrows furrow. He felt as bright and dreamy and imaginary as the light through the window. He did not understand anything. It was a long moment before Ronan opened his eyes, and when he did, his expression was complicated. He stood up. He was still looking at Adam, and Adam was looking back, but neither said anything. Probably Ronan wanted something from him, but Adam didn’t know what to say. He was a magician, Persephone had said, and his magic was making connections between disparate things. Only now he was too full of white, fuzzy light to make any sort of logical connections. He knew that of all the options in the world, Ronan Lynch was the most difficult version of any of them. He knew that Ronan was not a thing to be experimented with. He knew his mouth still felt warm. He knew he had started his entire time at Aglionby certain that all he wanted to do was get as far away from this state and everything in it as possible. He was pretty sure he had just been Ronan’s first kiss. β€œI’m gonna go downstairs,” Ronan said.
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Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4))