Raven Boys Ronan Quotes

#1. 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.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

Reggie Jackson

#3. 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

#4. Gansey and Adam are getting Adam's stuff so he can move in," Noah said. "Ronan went to the library."
" Move in! I thought he said ... wait-Ronan went where?

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

George Santayana

#6. She walks to a table
She walk to table
She is walking to a table
She walk to table now
What difference does it make
What difference it make
In Nature, no completeness
No sentence really complete thought
Language, like woman,
Look best when free, undressed.

Wang Ping

#7. Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn't turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he'd earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they'd all follow him anywhere.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. The buck stops here," Ronan said, pulling up the hand brake. "Home shit home.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Did you get notes for me?"
"No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. ghosts. He had learned a little of the history of Halyn House

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#11. Raven." There was a long pause as Ronan regarded his hand. "Maybe a crow. But I doubt it. I ... yeah, seriously doubt it. Corvus corax."
Even drunk, Ronan knew the Latin name for the common raven.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. 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.

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#13. Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

Ha-Joon Chang

#14. If it had a social security number, Ronan had fought with it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

Peter Brimelow

#16. Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

Xavier Dolan

#18. I believe that in the deepest places in their hearts, people are violent and take pleasure in hurting each other.

Ruth Ozeki

#19. God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Heinrich Heine

#20. 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

#21. Behind him, he heard Ronan say, I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck off.

Maggie Stiefvater

#22. He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I'm sorry it wasn't puppies.

Maggie Stiefvater

#23. I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.

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#24. I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.

Dave Grohl

#25. 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

#26. At the sight of Gansey's Aglionby sweater, Adam's father had charged out, firing on all cylinders. For weeks after that, Ronan had called Gansey "the S.R.F.," where the S stood for Soft, the R stood for Rich, and the F for something else.

Maggie Stiefvater

#27. 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.

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. Because God is a God of mercy and His mercy endures forever, you can trust that he will have mercy on you (See: 1 Chronicles 17:13). Therefore you can show mercy to your spouse by forgiving whenever he (she) does or says something that hurts or disturbs you.

Stormie O'martian

#29. Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

Jonathan Richman

#30. If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?

Camron Wright

#31. We are just ordinary people. They're special. Adam's tied to the ley line. Ronan's a dreamer. Blue amplifies all of that."
"Richie Rich is just a person," Orla said.
Yes, and he's going to die.

Maggie Stiefvater