Gansey Quotes

• While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Night, Pausing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

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• They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Walking Away, Able, Walks

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• In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Heart, Second Chance, Years

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• All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Burning

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.188, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stars, Wish, Arms

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• '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.'

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Baby, Three, Needs

  "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

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• I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Blue, Said

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fall, Cutting, People

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.35, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  I Like You, Self, Broken

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• When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Powerful, Giving, Adam

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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• Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Rags, Stories, Done

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

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• If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tree, Reason, Humans

  "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

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• He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Giving, Sun, Pauses

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

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• The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Long, This Is Me

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)”, p.164, Scholastic Inc.

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• She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fans, Dresses, Lamps

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

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• Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Guy, Different, Three

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.

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• Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children are required to get gifts for their parents. I'm a dependent. That's the definition of dependent, is it not?" "You, a dependent!" his sister said, and laughed. "You haven't been a dependent since you were four. You went straight from kindergarten to old man with a studio apartment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Children, Men

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• Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, His Eyes

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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• The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Special, Looks, Knack

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am the very model of a modern major general

  W. S. Gilbert

  Modern, Minerals, Calculus

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the Camaro at every stoplight on the way out of town. "Put your back into it!" Gansey shouted breathlessly. He was talking to himself, of course, or to the gearbox. "Don't let it smell fear on you!" Blue wailed each time the engine revved up, but not unhappily. Noah played the drums on the back of Ronan's headrest. Adam, for his part, was not wild, but he did his best not to appear unwild, so as not to ruin it for the others.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Talking, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Shoes, Looks

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• I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Wall, Blue, Stronger

  "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

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• At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Doors, Hands, Saws

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• Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments - and then roared to deafening life. The Camaro lived to fight another day. The radio was even working, playing the Stevie Nicks song that always sounded to Gansey like it was about a one-winged dove.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Song, Fighting, Keys

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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