The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

by Maggie Stiefvater

Henrietta. There is some place — or places — that I can’t see. Other times, I see” — and here she didn’t look

BLUNT TRAUMA.

fussed over the wasp for another few moments

And I … I’m … I’m very young.”

She realized, again, that she was trying to impress Ronan only because he was impossible to impress,

“Well.” Gansey blinked. “Okay.”

Blue finished, “To finding Butternut.”

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

“I’m only going to say this once, and then I’m going to be done with it,” she said. “But I think you’re awfully brave.”

Without Blue there to make him stronger, without Gansey there to make him human, without Ronan there to make him belong, Noah was a frightening thing.

“I don’t mean to interrupt. But in either three or seven minutes,” Persephone said, “Blue’s raven boys are going to pull down the street and sit in front of the house while they try to find a way to convince her to sneak out with them.”

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.