Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Raven Boys.
Friendship Quotes
Adam Parrish had been Gansey's friend for eighteen months, and he knew that certain things came along with that friendship. Namely, believing in the supernatural, tolerating Gansey's troubled relat...
Family Quotes
Gansey resented having to play nicely with Ronan's older brother, a senior at Aglionby, but he understood why they had to. Freedom in the Lynch family was a complicated thing, and at the moment, De...
The Home Quotes
Mornings at 300 Fox Way were fearful, jumbled things. Elbows in sides and lines for the bathroom and people snapping over tea bags placed into cups that already had tea bags in them. There was scho...
Jealousy Quotes
Maybe Blue was having a bit of an identity crisis. Some days it did seem a little unfair that all of the wonder and power that surrounded her family was passed to Blue in the form of paperwork....
Choices Quotes
The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realize that you were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselve...
Fate and Free Will Quotes
Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love. (P.1)
Mortality Quotes
There was no thrill in seeing him, as she had thought there would be. All she could think was, He will be dead within a year. How did Maura bear it? (1.75)
The Supernatural Quotes
This was why Blue and Neeve were here. Every year, Maura sat on the wall, knees pulled up to her chin, staring at nothing, and recited names to Blue. To Blue, the churchyard remained empty, but to...
Exploration Quotes
All night he'd sat outside the monstrously modern Church of the Holy Redeemer, recorder running, ears straining, waiting for—something. The atmosphere had been less than magical. Possibly not the...
Society and Class Quotes
"It's an all-boys school. For politicians' sons and oil barons' sons and for"—Blue struggled to think of who else might be rich enough to send their kids to Aglionby—"the sons of mistresses liv...