How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Adam Parrish had been Gansey's friend for eighteen months, and he knew that certain things came along with that friendship. Namely, believing in the supernatural, tolerating Gansey's troubled relationship with money, and co-existing with Gansey's other friends. (4.1)
Gansey is a peculiar dude. All of his friends would go to the ends of the earth for him (literally), but being his bro does come with some caveats: They've got to put up with all of his strange habits—including his hunt for a dead king.
Quote #2
Because of his money and good family name, because of his handsome smile and easy laugh, because he liked people (and despite his fears to the contrary) they liked him back, Gansey could've had any and all of the friends he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should've, for three different reasons, been friendless. (4.87)
Why would a rich, popular kid like Gansey choose three misfits as his best friends? Ronan's a loose canon, Adam's a scholarship kid from the poor side of town, and Noah… well, Noah's a ghost. They're not exactly the coolest kids in school.
Quote #3
It struck Gansey harder than he thought it would. Some days, all that grounded him was the knowledge that his and Adam's friendship existed in a place that money couldn't influence. Anything that spoke to the contrary hurt Gansey more than he would have admitted out loud. With precision, he'd asked, "Is that what you think of me?" (14.61)
Gansey likes to think that his friendships are above petty, worldly things like the amount of cash that they all have, but Adam knows that it's different—that money affects all relationships, whether you like it or not.
Quote #4
Because of course President Cell Phone had brought most of his posse from Nino's, everyone but the smudgy boy. They filled the hallway to overflowing, somehow, the three of them, loud and male and so comfortable with one another that they allowed no one else to be comfortable with them. (15.32)
Gansey and his friends may be obnoxious (especially to an Aglionby hater like Blue), but there's no denying that they've built a strong spirit of camaraderie with each other. They're true friends to the end.
Quote #5
This all seemed very manly and Aglionby to Blue, this calling of one another by last names and bantering about outdoor urinary habits. It also seemed like it could go on for a long time, so she interrupted, changing the subject back to Glendower. (23.48)
Even though they have big fat trust funds, high vocabularies, and an interest in the supernatural, the raven boys are still your typical teenage friends. They're full of hijinks and making fun of each other.
Quote #6
What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold any more bowls and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting. (24.39)
There's nothing that brings people together quite like supernatural phenomena and a group gelato trip. Blue thinks she has nothing in common with the raven boys, but after a jaunt to look for ley lines, she has to admit that they're starting to grow on her.
Quote #7
Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue—her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. And it was a strange sort of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for Glendower with them. (25.45)
Somehow, Blue manages to infiltrate the raven boys' friend group with ease. This is an impressive feat for a girl who is pretty much a loner at her own public high school.
Quote #8
Gansey's voice, when he replied, was a little rough. "Well, if you killed Adam, I'd be quite upset."
"I'll do my best not to." (28.57-58)
Like many dudes, Gansey doesn't typically get sentimental when he's talking about his friends. But they still mean a whole lot to him, and he doesn't want anything to take them away from him.
Quote #9
There was humiliation in his voice when Noah answered, "We were friends."
Adam said, rather more ferocious than he'd been a moment before, "A friend wouldn't kill you." (32.126-127)
Poor Noah. It's a wonder he's managed to make some new best friends after he died. You'd think that he'd have trust issues after his previous best friend murdered him in cold blood.
Quote #10
"Do not ignore me," his father growled. And then, inexplicably, he turned his head away from Adam, and he shouted, "What do you want?"
"To do this," Ronan Lynch snarled, smashing his fist into the side of Robert Parrish's face. (36-53-54)
Ronan seems like the worst friend in the world at first glance: He's sarcastic, rude, and constantly itching for a fight. But when Adam's dad starts beating up on him, Ronan shows up like a white knight… a white knight with a vicious right hook, that is.