The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)

by Maggie Stiefvater

Stories stretch in all ways.

“It’s not always running away,” Jimi said, her voice deep and rumbling through her chest to Blue’s ear. “To leave.”

I was going to say that leaving helps, sometimes. And it’s not always a forever good-bye. There’s leaving and coming back.”

Blue was filled with frustration that her life was so clearly demarcated. Things that were not enough, but that she could have. Things that were something more, that she couldn’t.

Adam sighed. It was impossible how some memories never decayed.

Henry was aware he had a great vocabulary. It was not the same thing as having the words you needed to express yourself.

But it wasn’t that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.

If you can’t be unafraid, Henry said, be afraid and happy.