Call Down the Hawk Quotes

“You are made of dreams and this world is not for you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Does any part of you still look at the sky andhurt?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“tamquam alter idem”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Adam.
Ronan missed him like a lung.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Ronan hadn't known anything about who Adam was then and, if possible, he'd known even less about who he himself was, but as they drove away from the boy with the bicycle, this was how it had begun: Ronan leaning back against his seat and closing his eyes and sending up a simple, inexplicable, desperate prayer to God: Please.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Dreams are not the safest thing to build a life on.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“We used to hear the stars, too. When people stopped talking, there was silence. Now you could shut every mouth on the planet and there’d still be a hum. Air-conditioning groaning from the vent beside you. Semi trucks hissing on a highway miles away. A plane complaining ten thousand feet above you.

Silenceis an extinct word.

It bothers you, doesn’t it?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“I want it too much," Adam said. That sentence, Ronan thought, was enough to undo all bad feeling he might have had meeting Adam's Harvard friends, all bad feeling about looking like a loser, all bad feeling about feeling stuck, all bad feeling, ever. Adam Parrish wanted him, and he wanted Adam Parrish.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Thiswas as Ronan remembered it. Adam's ribs fit against his ribs just as they had before. His arms wrapped around Adam's narrow frame the same way they had before. His hand still pressed against the back of Ronan's skull the way it always did when they hugged. His voice was missing his accent, but now it sounded properly like him as he murmured into Ronan's skin: "You smell like home.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“It felt like sadness was like radiation, like the amount of time between exposures was irrelevant, like you got a badge that eventually got filled up from a lifetime of it, and then it just killed you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Do you understand? For you, reality is not an external condition. For you, reality is a decision.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“But joy is a small, tenacious crop, especially in soil that hasn't grown any for a long time.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“The opposite of magical is not ordinary. The opposite of magical is mankind. The world is a neon sign; it says HUMANITY but everything is burnt out except MAN.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Belonging in more than one world means that you end up belonging in none of them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Tamquam,’ said Adam.
'Wait,’ said Ronan.
'Tamquam,’ he said again, gently.
'Alter idem,’ Ronan said, and found himself alone.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“He had blue eyes. People generally think blue eyes are pretty, but his were not. They were not cornflower, sky, baby, indigo, azure. His were iceberg, squall, hypothermia, eventual death.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“That's me," Ronan said. "He saves people; I take their lunch money.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“There's such thing as an emotional cost,” Adam said. “Investing in someone else's survival isn't free, and some people's emotional banks are already overdrawn.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“There was only the quiet that came after all those things. There was only the quiet that came when you were the only one left. Only the quiet that came when you were something strange enough to outsurvive the things that killed or drove away everyone you loved.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Funny, Ronan thought, how sad an empty house felt and how preferable an empty landscape was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“So there was burnished Gansey, who might not have saved Ronan's life in high school, but at the very least kept it mostly out of Ronan's reach so that he could not take it down and break it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Does any part of you still look at the sky andhurt?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“He looked like his brother, in a harder way, like Declan Lynch had been inserted into a pencil sharpener and Ronan Lynch had been taken out after Declan's teeth were even; Ronan's were bared. Declan's eyes were narrow; Ronan's were arrow slits. Declan's hair was curled; Ronan's was obliterated. Declan looked like the kind of person you forgot you'd ever seen. Ronan looked like the kind of person that made you cross to the other side of the street.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“He sucked in more longing with every inhale, he exhaled some of his happiness on the other side. How miserable.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Declan hated that he loved someone who wasn't real.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Everyone thinks their world is the only one. A flea believes a dog is the world. A dog believes the kennel is the world. The huntsman thinks his country is the world. The king believes the globe is the world. The farther out you get, the wider you get, the higher you get, the more you see you have misunderstood the bounds of what is possible. Of what is right and wrong. Of what you can truly do. Perspective, Ronan Lynch.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Ronan reached, and the darkness reached back.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“It's the stuff between stars, the space between roots, the thing that makes electricity get up in the morning.

It fucking hates us”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Declan said ruefully. “There’s a thing Soulages said. ‘A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite—it should look inside of us.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“You want me to trust you? Save her. Really save her. It’s going to mean telling her what you are. It will cost you emotionally."
"Did it cost you to save me?"
There was a long silence. The mist shimmered darkly in the trees. The rain sighed.
Bryde said finally, "You are the most expensive thing I have ever saved.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk