Glendower Quotes

#1. They were headed back to Henrietta in the Pig, Gansey's furiously orange-red ancient Camaro. Gansey drove, because when it was the Camaro, he always drove. And the conversation was about Glendower, because when you were with Gansey, the conversation was almost always about Glendower.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come, when you do call for them?

William Shakespeare

#3. Like Blue, not the ley line, was the missing piece that he'd been needing all these years, like the search for Glendower wasn't truly underway until she was part of it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, 'You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.'
Gansey died.
'Goodbye,' Noah said. 'Don't throw it away.'
He quietly slid from time.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. His mother had told him that when you looked into the eyes of God at the pearly gates, all the questions you ever had were answered.
Ronan had a lot of questions.
Waking Glendower might be like that. Fewer angels attending, and maybe a heavier Welsh accent. Slightly less judgment.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic there was in the world. How much magic that wasn't just buried in a tomb. He was feeling it now.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren't really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. If Glendower had not saved Gansey's life, he did not know who to thank, or who to be, or how to live.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey. He was everything Gansey wished he could be: wise and brave, sure of his path, touched by the supernatural, respected by all, survived by his legacy.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

Owen Glendower

#12. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it.

Viktor E. Frankl

#13. Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

Diana Butler Bass

#14. Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

Anwar Ibrahim

#15. Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

Dejan Stojanovic

#16. Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.

Owen Glendower

#17. I crossed the street. The snow felt rather good, but then I'm a monster.

Anne Rice

#18. But it has perks -- personal pride, financial security, and the feeling of accomplishment and control that comes when you just swap in a new toilet paper roll rather than resorting to fast-food napkins.

Kelly Williams Brown

#19. No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

Mark Victor Hansen

#20. Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

Owen Glendower