Gansey Quotes:

All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Burning, Gansey

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Moments, Metaphor, Gansey

Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Eye, His Eyes, Gansey

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Giving, Sun, Gansey

Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life," Gansey replied.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Safe, Gansey

While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Dream, Night, Pausing, Gansey

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

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Walking Away, Able, Walks, Gansey

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.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Heart, Second Chance, Years, Gansey

I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Stars, Wish, Arms, Gansey, Wish You

'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.'

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

topic: Baby, Three, Needs, Chainsaw, Gansey

I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Thinking, Blue, Said, Gansey

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.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Fall, Cutting, People, Gansey

You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way." "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: I Like You, Self, Broken, Gansey

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Powerful, Giving, Adam, Gansey

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Rags, Stories, Done, Gansey, Rags To Riches

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

topic: Tree, Reason, Humans, Gansey, Reason To Love

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)”, p.164, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Real, Long, This Is Me, Gansey, Real Me

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.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Fans, Dresses, Lamps, Gansey

Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Guy, Different, Three, Gansey, Friendless

Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children are required to get gifts for their parents. I'm a dependent. That's the definition of dependent, is it not?" "You, a dependent!" his sister said, and laughed. "You haven't been a dependent since you were four. You went straight from kindergarten to old man with a studio apartment.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Mom, Children, Men, Gansey

The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Special, Saws, Looks, Gansey

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

- W. S. Gilbert

source: 'The Pirates of Penzance' (1879) act 1

topic: Animal, Vegetables, Names, Integral Calculus, Gansey

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.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Smell, Blue, Talking, Gansey, Camaro

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Blue, Shoes, Looks, Gansey

I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

topic: Wall, Blue, Stronger, Plugs, Gansey

At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Doors, Hands, Saws, Gansey

Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments - and then roared to deafening life. The Camaro lived to fight another day. The radio was even working, playing the Stevie Nicks song that always sounded to Gansey like it was about a one-winged dove.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Song, Fighting, Keys, Gansey, Camaro

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.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Summer, Brother, Kings, Gansey

He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Blue, People, Church, Gansey

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Girl, Lying, Book, Gansey, Grace Brisbane

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.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.268, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Thumbs, Taught, Loser, Gansey

At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Blue, Mouths, Want, Gansey, Potato Chips

Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow. This was going to be a night.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Night, Fire, Climbing, Gansey, Gripping

He's a pit bull," Adam said. "I know some really nice pit bulls." "He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him." "How noble.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Nice, Trying, News, Pit Bull, Gansey

Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Selfish, Silly, Fall, Pantry, Gansey

Calla readjusted, wrapping the silk around her other thigh instead. "Which one's he again? The pretty one?" Blue and Gansey exchanged a look. Blue's look said, I'm so, so sorry. Gansey's said, Am I the pretty one?

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Sorry, Blue, Looks, Gansey, Callas

Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Grandmother, Dating, Lovely, Gansey, Lovely Woman

I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: I Like You, Boys, Broken, Gansey

I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Dog, Shade, Hours, Gansey

I thought I heard---" Gansey broke off. His eyes dropped to where Adam held Blue's hand. Again his face was somewhat puzzled by the fact of their hand-holding. Adam's grip tightened, although she didn't think he meant for it to.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Eye, Thinking, Hands, Gansey, Hand Holding

Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Running, Erratic, Handwriting, Gansey

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Stupid, Pride, Adam, Gansey

Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Blue, Ideas, Two, Gansey, Twenty Two

She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Lovely, Saws, Adam, Gansey

Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Blue, Arms, Said, Gansey, Wraps

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.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Jealous, Beer, Keys, Gansey, Car Keys

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.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Eye, Talking, Psychics, Gansey, Computer Screen

Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Coffee, Blue, Bottles, Gansey, Fair Trade

Well,” said Ronan, “I hope he likes it. I’ve pulled a muscle.” Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.” “Opening my hood.

- Maggie Stiefvater

source: Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.325, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Watches, Likes, Well Said, Gansey

In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Jobs, Blue, Feet, Gansey, Bare Skin