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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
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bookshelves: favourites-2012, witches
May 16, 2012
bookshelves: favourites-2012, witches
Read 2 times. Last read October 17, 2012 to October 21, 2012.
Update: Re-read September 2013
++++++ Spectacular. This was just amazing. For me, it didn't feel like a Maggie Stiefvater book but saying that, I've only read the Shiver series. But from what I remember, they were a very simple series, I felt The Raven Boys had a lot more depth. I loved all the characters but I think Blue and Gansey were my favourite.
++++++ Spectacular. This was just amazing. For me, it didn't feel like a Maggie Stiefvater book but saying that, I've only read the Shiver series. But from what I remember, they were a very simple series, I felt The Raven Boys had a lot more depth. I loved all the characters but I think Blue and Gansey were my favourite.
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Quotes Suzanne Liked
“Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
“You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
― The Raven Boys
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
― The Raven Boys
“I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
“Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here.”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
“Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
“I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God.”
― The Raven Boys
Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God.”
― The Raven Boys
“He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
“You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
"I like you better this way."
"Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.”
― The Raven Boys
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
"I like you better this way."
"Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.”
― 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.”
― The Raven Boys
"This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.”
― The Raven Boys
“Well,” said Ronan, “I hope he likes it. I’ve pulled a muscle.”
Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.”
“Opening my hood.”
― The Raven Boys
Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.”
“Opening my hood.”
― 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.”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
“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 buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
“When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The Blue that was before her stood inches from a boy in an Aglionby sweater. There was a slight stoop to his posture, and his shoulders were spattered darkly with rain. It was his fingers that Blue felt on her face. He touched her cheek with the backs of his fingers.
Tears coursed down the other Blue's face. Though some strange magic, Blue could feel them on her face as well. She could feel, too, sick, rising misery she'd felt in the churchyard, the grief that felt bigger than her. The other Blue's tears seemed endless. One drop slid after another, each following an identical path down her cheeks.
The boy in the Aglionby sweater leaned his forehead against Blue's. She felt the pressure of his skin against hers, and suddenly she could smell mint.
It'll be okay. Gansey told the other Blue. She could tell that he was afraid. It'll be okay.
Impossibly, Blue realized that this other Blue was crying because she loved Gansey. And that the reason Gansey touched her like that, his fingers so careful with her, was because he knew that her kiss could kill him. She could feel how badly the other Blue wanted to kiss him, even as she dreaded it. Though she couldn't understand why, her real, present day memories in the tree cavity were clouded with other false memories of their lips nearly touching, a life this other Blue had already lived.
Okay, I'm ready- Gansey's voice caught, just a little. Blue, kiss me.”
― The Raven Boys
Tears coursed down the other Blue's face. Though some strange magic, Blue could feel them on her face as well. She could feel, too, sick, rising misery she'd felt in the churchyard, the grief that felt bigger than her. The other Blue's tears seemed endless. One drop slid after another, each following an identical path down her cheeks.
The boy in the Aglionby sweater leaned his forehead against Blue's. She felt the pressure of his skin against hers, and suddenly she could smell mint.
It'll be okay. Gansey told the other Blue. She could tell that he was afraid. It'll be okay.
Impossibly, Blue realized that this other Blue was crying because she loved Gansey. And that the reason Gansey touched her like that, his fingers so careful with her, was because he knew that her kiss could kill him. She could feel how badly the other Blue wanted to kiss him, even as she dreaded it. Though she couldn't understand why, her real, present day memories in the tree cavity were clouded with other false memories of their lips nearly touching, a life this other Blue had already lived.
Okay, I'm ready- Gansey's voice caught, just a little. Blue, kiss me.”
― The Raven Boys
Reading Progress
May 16, 2012
– Shelved
October 17, 2012
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Started Reading
October 21, 2012
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Finished Reading
January 2, 2013
– Shelved as:
favourites-2012
March 17, 2013
– Shelved as:
witches
September 17, 2013
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Started Reading
(Hardcover Edition)
September 17, 2013
– Shelved
(Hardcover Edition)
September 18, 2013
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Finished Reading
(Hardcover Edition)
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Nov 05, 2012 11:59AM
Thanks Sam, isn't it amazing. I'm really looking forward to the next in the series.
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I'm a total Gansey girl, Suzanne! I have hopes for him and Blue. So glad to see you loved this too. :)
Oh I have hopes for Gansey and Blue too :) But I'll feel bad for Adam cos he's a sweetie :) Hopefully there won't be a love triangle, I don't think it would suit this book at all.
I'm with you I love Blue and Gansey too. But then again I love them all and The Gray Man fascinates me. I can't wait for book 3!