Ronan Quotes

1. "I'm lying on a Star Wars bedspread," said a dry voice behind them, "Will I ever be able to look myself in the eye again?" They all turned. "By the fact that I'm not on Rashah," Ronan said, looking about him, "but instead apparently in suburban hell, and in contact with this dubious cultural artifact, I take it we won?"
Author: Diane Duane

2. "Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. [...] Ronan was mine but he never belonged to me. This is not an issue of ownership. A child is not a couch."
Author: Emily Rapp

3. "Good evening," said Ronan. "Students, are you? And do you learn much, up at the school?""Erm -""A bit," said Hermione timidly."A bit. Well, that's something." Ronan sighed."
Author: J.K. Rowling

4. "If I had coal and fireAnd metal fine and trueI'd make an iron band An iron band for you I'd pick up all the pieces From where they fell that dayFit them back togetherAnd take the pain awayBut I don't have the ironAnd I don't have the steel To wrap around your broken heartAnd teach it how to healSomewhere in the fire Somewhere in the pain I'd find the magic that I need To make you whole againI'd make the iron band so strongI'd make it gleam so bright I'd fix the things I've broken I'd turn my wrongs to right But I don't have the steel To wrap around your broken heart Wish I could make it heal Wish I could make it heal (Ch. 27)"
Author: Jennifer Donnelly

5. "There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?"
Author: Leon Uris

6. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

7. "The buck stops here," Ronan said, pulling up the hand brake. "Home shit home."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

8. "And you, Ronan," Niall said. He always said Ronan differently from other words. As if he had meant to say another word entirely — something like knife or poison or revenge — and then swapped it out for Ronan's name at the last moment. "When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

9. "Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it.Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric.The euphoria wore off long before the shame did.He was never sleeping again."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

10. "Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing where he looked like both the dangerous Ronan he was now and the cheerier Ronan he had been when Gansey first met him."Hold on," Gansey told Adam. Then, to Ronan: "Why would he be?""No reason. Just no reason." Ronan slammed his door.Gansey asked Adam, "Sorry. You still have that suit for the party?"Adam's response was buried in the sound of the second-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!"
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

11. "And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

12. "Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan's lack of heat tolerance. "I didn't say anything." "Whatever, man," Ronan replied. "I know that face. You were born in hell, you're used to it."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

13. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

14. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

15. "I never taught him to break him thumb.""That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent.""Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

16. "From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every forbidden word possible, often in compound-word form. As Adam stared at his lap, penitent, he mused that there was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together, a black-painted poetry. It was far less hateful sounding than when he didn't swear.Ronan finished with, "For the love of … Parrish, take some care, this is not your mother's 1971 Honda Civic."Adam lifted his head and said, "They didn't start making the Civic until '73."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

17. "Well," said Ronan, "I hope he likes it. I've pulled a muscle."Gansey scoffed, "Doing what? You were standing watch.""Opening my hood."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

18. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

19. "Did you get notes for me?""No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

20. "Hey, pal," Matthew whispered. He was the only person who could get away with calling Ronan pal. Matthew Lynch was a bear of a boy, square and solid and earnest. His head was covered with soft, golden curls completely unlike any of his other family members. And in his case, the perfect Lynch teeth were framed by an easy, dimpled smile. He had two brands of smile: the one that was preceded by a shy dip of his chin, a dimple, and then BAM, smile. And the one that teased for a moment before BAM, an infectious laugh. Females of all ages called him adorable. Males of all ages called him buddy. Matthew failed at many more things than either of his older brothers, but unlike Declan or Ronan, he always tried his hardest.Ronan had dreamt one thousand nightmares about something happening to him."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

21. "He smiled tolerantly at her. Rubbing his smooth chin its recently assassinated chin hairs, he studied her. She barely came up to Ronan's shoulder, but she was every bit as big as he, every bit as present."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

22. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

23. "Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

24. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

25. "Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head fondly before continuing down the aisle. She didn't seem to care that he was fifteen, which was all right, because he didn't, either. Both Ronan and Declan observed this interaction with the pleased expressions of parents watching their prodigy at work."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

26. "Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

27. "Ronan returned, leaning in the passenger window. Blue turned the phone to him. "Maybe we could walk to this place.""The Deering General Store?" Ronan said, voice scathing. "Look at it. That's not a place to get a battery. That's a place to lose your wallet. Or your virginity.""Do you have a better idea?" she demanded. "Maybe we can hurl some stuff into the underbrush! Or hit something! That solves everything! Maybe we can be really manly and break things!"
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

28. "Ronan didn't sound very interested, but that was part of the Ronan Lynch brand. It was impossible to tell how deep his disinterest truly was."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

29. "The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

30. "Ronan looked angry, but he was in the mood where he was going to look angry no matter what. "I don't know what I want. I don't know what the hell I am."He got into the Camaro."You promised me," Gansey said through the open car door.Ronan didn't look up."I know what I did, Gansey.""Don't forget."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

31. "Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

32. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

33. "Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn't come with agony."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

34. "There were many versions of Gansey, but this one had been rare since the introduction of Adam's taming presence. It was also Ronan's favorite. It was the opposite of Gansey's most public face, which was pure control enclosed in a paper-thin wrapper of academia. But this version of Gansey was Gansey the boy. This was the Gansey who bought the Camaro, the Gansey who asked Ronan to teach him to fight, the Gansey who contained every wild spark so that it wouldn't show up in other versions. Was it the shield beneath the lake that had unleashed it? Orla's orange bikini? The bashed-up remains of his rebuilt Henrietta and the fake IDs they'd returned to? Ronan didn't really care. All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

35. "When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

36. "Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling.""It's called being dead," Ronan replied."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

37. "Her name's Chainsaw," replied Ronan, without looking up. Then: "Noah. You're creepy as hell back there."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

38. "I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me."Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen. "Were you talking to me or Ronan?""Either. I'm flexible."Blue made a small, terrible noise."I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

39. "From Ronan's room, he heard Noah's laugh. He and Ronan were throwing various objects from the second-story window to the parking low below. There was a terrific crash.Ronan's voice rose, exasperated. "Not that one, Noah."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

40. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

41. "Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

42. "He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

43. "Blue." It was Ronan's voice, for the first time, and everyone, even Helen, twisted their head towards him. His head was cocked in a way that Gansey recognized as dangerous. Something in his eyes was sharp as he stared at Blue. He asked, "Do you know Gansey?" ... Blue looked defensive under their stares. She said reluctantly. "Only his name." With his fingers loosely together, elbows on his knees, Ronan leaned forward across Adam to be closer to Blue. He could be unbelievably threatening. "And how is it," he asked," you came to know Gansey's name?"
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

44. "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."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

45. "In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic..."Take me away from here, take me away from here."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

46. "Ronan gave in to the brief privilege of hating himself, as he always did in church. There was something satisfying about acknowledging this hatred, something relieving about this little present he allowed himself each Sunday."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

47. "Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

48. "No echo de menos ser un niño, pero echo de menos el placer que me producían las pequeñas cosas, por más que las cosas importantes se estuvieran desmoronando"
Author: Neil Gaiman

49. "By all means, give me a reason to decline," Ronan suggested as Felix moved to stand. "You came with high demands, and everyone knows a warlock collects in blood."
Author: Samantha Blake

50. "I need to do this, Ronan. I've got nothing to lose.""I do."
Author: Veronica Wolff

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