Tag: the raven cycle

the evolution of adam and ronan (bold is faves)

alecsilghtwood:

  • Last week, he and Adam had taken turns dragging each other on a moving dolly behind the BMW, and they both still had the marks to show it
  • Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didnt 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. 
  • “Do you think it makes me look tougher?” Ronan said, “It makes you look like a loser.”
  • “You’re a Neanderthal.” “Sometimes you sound just like Gansey,” Ronan said. “Sometimes you don’t.” Noah laughed his breathy, nearly soundless laugh. Ronan spit on the ground beside the BMW. “I didn’t realize that ‘midget’ was the Adam Parrish type.” he said. 
  • Two years earlier, Adam had made his decision to come to Aglionby, and, in his head, it was sort of because of Ronan…even the way the other boy had moved, Adam recalled, had struck him: confident and careless, shoulders rolled back, chin tilted, an emperor’s son…He’d never wanted to be someone else so badly. In his head, that boy was Ronan.
  • “I’m always straight.” Adam replied, “Oh, man, that’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told.”

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questolatodiparadiso:

“A clue to the building’s original identity was painted on the eastern side of the building: MONMOUTH MANUFACTURING. But for all their research, neither Gansey nor Adam had been able to figure out precisely what Monmouth had manufactured. Something that had required twenty-five-foot ceilings and wide open spaces; something that had left moisture stains on the floor and gouges in the brick walls. Something that the world no longer needed.”

guess who got to meet maggie stiefvater today!!!

gosh, she’s the coolest and nerdiest author i’ve ever met

some highlights from the stuff she (and a panel of other authors) talked about:

– after TRC, she thought that she would never write a series again and that she’d stick to stand-alone novels but hoo boy she was wrong, with the ronan trilogy in the works and all. 

– she says that she’s basically suffering from having to plan out and write the trilogy but haha, she’s just kidding, she’s having a lot of fun with it 

– she forgot what her 9th goat is called

– her experience during the birth of her first child is that she was absolutely terrified 

– she says that the gangsey is essentially made up of her – and i quote – “scholarly me, rebel me, dead me.”

– her friend once read her a ronan/gansey fanfic and she could not look at the gear shift of her camaro the same way ever since

and she said a lot of neat stuff about world-building and tips for writers and yeah, stiefvater is one cool bean