Top 100 The Raven Quotes
#1. Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ...
... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to someone with a flamethrower for hands. Though he'd really lost it when Raven sang the lyric to Disco Inferno.
J.T. Bock
#2. Do you have a name?" asked Gerta. "I do," said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. "I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God."
T. Kingfisher
#3. The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs.
"Say something," Gansey said.
"That bell."
"Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey.
Maggie Stiefvater
#4. I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, to say, 'Don't do this' and my kids go, 'But Mom, you did it.'
Raven-Symone
#5. 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.
Maggie Stiefvater
#6. I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
Francis Quarles
#7. Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten."
My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look.
Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right.
"It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven."
"Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.
Jeaniene Frost
#8. 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
#9. You disappoint me, Arianne.
Said the crow to the raven. You have been disappointing me for years, Father.
George R R Martin
#10. It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
Plautus
#11. You have a family," Mikhail said gently. "I am your family. Raven is your family. Our child will be, and of course you have Jacques. Someday you will have children." He sent a slight grin in Gregori's direction. "You can even claim the healer as family. We do, although he dislikes it intensely.
Christine Feehan
#12. She rode at the head of a shining line of black limos like the head raven in a convocation of black birds. Her husband had moved people, and, in so moving, had become their Lancelot Satterwhite, too. Something of him lived in them, was not hers, was now theirs.
Lauren Groff
#13. But some characters in books are really real
Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
Dodie Smith
#15. Sometimes I feared I'd turn into a bat myself, stuck up there night and day, scrathing away. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#16. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.
Karen Maitland
#17. The music, and the banquet, and the wine
The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments
The white arms and the raven hair
the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.
Lord Byron
#18. I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.
H. Raven Rose
#19. We thank you, God, for this boy and his awesome genes. Keep up the good work.
Jo Raven
#20. I felt curiously aloof from my own self. No temptations maddened me. The plump, glossy little Eskimo girls with their fish smell, hideous raven hair and guinea pig faces, evoked even less desire in me than Dr. Johnson had.
Vladimir Nabokov
#21. "Even Dwarfs Started Small," Calla replied immediately. "In the original German: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen."
Maura winced, though Blue couldn't tell if it was at the movie or at Calla's accent.
Maggie Stiefvater
#22. The Raven's house is built with reeds, - Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.
Thomas D
#23. 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
#24. Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'
The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven smiled pleasantly back.
A. Ashley Straker
#25. (Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?"
(Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.
Ellen Schreiber
#26. I met a girl with raven dark hair and eyes the color of emeralds ...
Jay McLean
#27. Every time I can't tell where someone's calling me from in a room and every time I accidentally start to put my earbuds in both ears I think about you.
Maggie Stiefvater
#28. The lion-as proud as the diamond bright, Though the spell may be clouding that radiant light-in the death of the sun what's amiss will then mend, while the raven is dying discloses the end.
Kerstin Gier
#29. Raven sighed and looked up the tree. "Maybe it's asleep," he murmured.
Myche grinned. "Want me to take a look?"
Raven blinked. "What?"
His friend gave a mock-suffering sigh. "I'm a squirrel. I know trees.
Mari Evers
#30. He's a very funny and very nice man. When you read the script, you want to stick with it. But when you're with Eddie Murphy you've got to improvise. He's always making jokes and making me crack up when the camera's on.
Raven-Symone
#31. 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
#34. Gansey's phone buzzed.
"Gansey, man, is this diseased tree cutting into your digital time?" Ronan asked.
The fact was the digital time was cutting into his diseased tree time.
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. And suddenly I am blindingly angry at Raven
for her lectures, and her stubbornness, and for thinking that the way that you help people is by driving them against a wall, by beating them down until they fight back.
Lauren Oliver
#36. Your wish can't stop inevitability"
"Maybe it can. Maybe if I love you hard enough, the rest of the world with disappear."
"Little Raven, I would not want the world to disappear. You are my world, so stay right where you are.
Dannika Dark
#38. The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.
Charles Spurgeon
#39. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
#40. Daring was glaring at Raven as if he could shoot arrows with his eyes. And maybe he could. She'd seen him swordfight holding the sword with his feet. And win.
Shannon Hale
#41. 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.
Maggie Stiefvater
#42. He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. I put on the first Matrix movie, because it's something light.
Jo Raven
#44. Despite my funny feeling about her, I regretfully obliged to his interest in pursuing a sexual relationship with her. I knew James only wanted the pussy, but I could see in Raven's eyes that she wanted more.
Jessica N. Watkins
#45. The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time
("Spanish Generosity")
Max Jacob
#46. The way we function in society - it doesn't make sense sometimes because it's all based on how you look and then how badly you should feel after you eat the food we just advertised. And then when someone in the public eye goes up or down, it's like a major moment.
Raven-Symone
#47. 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
#48. The Witch can gaze clearly into the dark hidden corners of the human psyche just as the full moon can light up the darkness of night.
Raven Grimassi
#49. what can I say? Can't beat fictional boyfriends. They're the best. ***
Jo Raven
#50. After a while, there had been too much incredible beauty for him to process, and it had become invisible
Maggie Stiefvater
#51. Being positive at the worst time is the best time.
Raven Moore
#52. According to an ancient and common tradition in the kingdom of Great Britain, this king did not die, but was transformed into a raven by the art of enchantment and, in the course of time, he shall return to rule again and regain his kingdom and his scepter.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#53. To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.
Marissa Meyer
#54. Today I seen a dove collide into the sunset, on the way to heaven and a ruined raven chewing on death, over the pavement.
Anthony Liccione
#55. Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow. "Fuck you," said the raven. It
Neil Gaiman
#56. I'm just like a giant candy cane, the ladies want to lick me all over.
Raven
#57. My advice: If you every have the chance to change the world, don't hesitate. Leave your great big mark.
Shannon Hale
#58. So thick with cobwebs it seemed like skeletons had decorated for a party. Raven fought her way through the webs to the far wall and ripped the velvet cloth off the mirror. She saw her own reflection staring back - long black hair with purple highlights, dark eyebrows,
Shannon Hale
#59. The dark and the light, they exist side by side,
Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the other.
The darkened path is as illuminated as the lightened,
Only the fear of the dark keeps us from seeing our way.
Raven Davies
#60. On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. Before such calm external beauty the presence of a vague fear is more distinctly felt - like a raven flapping its slow wing across the sunny air.
George Eliot
#62. That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.
Ellen Schreiber
#63. In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
Eden Robinson
#64. I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only thing he could do to keep on serving the symbol and not have to deal with a flesh-and-blood woman.
Glen Cook
#65. The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
Peter S. Beagle
#66. HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature ... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures.
Raven Grimassi
#67. 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
#68. He was even nicer to look at in the sunshine. Raven hair, sky blue eyes, and full lips. Sexy.
S.C. Wynne
#69. Raven Stone and Don Carson are the stupidest fucking people on the planet because their mothers didn't breastfeed them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#70. The interior would have resembled the backseat of a really big car if the seat belts hadn't had five-point fasteners that looked like they belonged in an X-wing fighter.
Maggie Stiefvater
#71. Don't sport it unless you plan to use it. Raven stuck his tongue out, his eyes narrowing with intention. The ring on his lip protruded out.
C.L.Stone
#72. I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna ... and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me."
"It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.
Ellen Schreiber
#73. Raven scowled at her. 'Fine. But if I accidentally shoot you because my aim is shaky, because I'm too tense, because I wasn't given the chance to relax before going into a potentially very dangerous situation, you'll be happy blaming only yourself?
A. Ashley Straker
#74. Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Juvenal
#76. It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.
Maggie Stiefvater
#77. Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away
Jessica Sorensen
#78. The buck stops here," Ronan said, pulling up the hand brake. "Home shit home.
Maggie Stiefvater
#79. You know that all things are composed of four elements. Tell me their qualities", he orders, his smile suddenly vanished. "Fire is hot a dry. Air is dry and moist. Water cold and moist. Earth cold and dry." [Gisa]
Karen Maitland
#80. Raven could destroy me. He could twist any one of the missteps I had made around him until he owned me. That he hadn't yet didn't mean he wouldn't ever. It just meant I was of more use to him running on my own steam, making fresh mistakes to compound the old ones than under his auspices.
Hailey Edwards
#82. Sebastian's eyes were the color of smoke and silver. His pale skin, raven hair, and naturally dark red lips, paired with a rebel attitude and a poet's soul, pulled me in like a dark, magnetic force.
Kelly Keaton
#83. Did you get notes for me?"
"No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
Maggie Stiefvater
#84. Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.
Lily Cole
#85. You will sleep till the stars fall from the heavens ans the seas turn into dust. [Father Arthmael]
Karen Maitland
#86. Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event ... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.
Raven Goodwin
#87. My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
Maurice Ravel
#88. Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.
Margaret Atwood
#89. He was just alive," [Gansey] said helplessly. "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week. And you killed him.
Maggie Stiefvater
#90. At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.
John Astin
#91. When do we get to the part where I get inspired by this wonder boy and my seriously bitchy attitude toward men is miraculously healed?
H. Raven Rose
#92. Let go of the labels that confine you. Be who you are. The unique person you were born to be!
Raven Williams
#93. I wanted to have a Vanna White look alike contest here, the only problem was, most of the girls who showed up look like Betty White.
Raven
#94. A long, thin line like steam trailed from the mirror through the room and into the cup of tea. The heat from the tea was warming the egg, steamy tendrils rising, wrapping around its bright spotted shell. Already there were cracks. "Get the egg!" Raven said. Raven
Shannon Hale
#95. It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her greens, but she'd done the research and she didn't think the two were related.
Maggie Stiefvater
#96. It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.
Glen Cook
#98. This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.
H. Raven Rose
#99. I don't care to be pretty," Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.
Maggie Stiefvater
#100. The more that we gather at the seasonal tides of Nature, the more we become like Nature. When we become like Her it is easier to understand Her.
Raven Grimassi
