His noble and oblivious and optimistic friend was slowly opening his eyes and seeing the world for what it was, and it was filthy, and violent, and profane, and unfair. Adam.
Noah prodded her with a cold finger. “Tell him who you are.” “I’m working with Gansey,” Blue added. “On the ley line.” “Oh!” said the voice. “Well. How lovely to meet you. What did you say your name was? I’m Roger Malory.” He was doing something extremely complicated with his r’s that made him difficult to understand. “Blue. My name’s Blue Sargent.” “Blair?” “Blue.” “Blaize?” Blue sighed. “Jane.” “Oh, Jane! I thought that you were saying Blue for some reason. It’s nice to meet you, Jane.
So many pearls to be had, if you were in the mood to open oysters.
Dear God,” remarked Cell Phone boy. “I don’t know what else to say.” “‘Sorry,’” she recommended. “I said that already.” Blue considered. “Then, ’bye.
I slowly wipe my bloody hand a crossed my jacket and draw my switch blade from my pocket. I show it to him. Mutt regards it with contempt. “How is it you’re thinking you’ll stop e with that wee thing?” The blade snaps out audibly. Mutt would not be the largest thing to die on the slender point of it. “I don’t think I’ll stop you,” I say. “I think that you will cut my horse and then when you come out of that stall, I will use this to cut your heart out and hand it to you.
I’m less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let’s-Save-Erdas.
It was the opposite of Gansey’s most public face, which was pure control enclosed in a paper-thin wrapper of academia.
She stands beside Corr, looking up at him. I want her to love him.
He rubbed the side of his face on the pillow. “Mmmmsoft,” he remarked, then added, “One’s your fault. The other one, you just happen to be there when it happens. Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn’t feel bad about that. It’s not your bear.
Although he had not yet managed to tune it to a clear station, he was shocked by how comforting even the sound of static was. It was not yet music, but it was about to be.
The girl galloped to catch up with him, but she didn’t pause when she reached him. She preferred to form a lopsided perimeter of frantic activity around his person. Anything else might give the appearance of willing obedience, and she would do a lot to avoid that.
Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.
I nodded, but part of me hoped the power would be off at Beck’s house. I kind of wanted Sam back in my bed, where I could keep him from disappearing like the dream that he was.
She wanted to stop being afraid, and she wanted to be able to call Declan Lynch and give him something she’d painted with Tyrian purple, and she wanted to have a future that didn’t look exactly like her past.
This was distressing. She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible.
There’s no meaning to life as a wolf. If you don’t have memories, it’s like you never existed. You can’t leave anything behind. I mean – how can I defend humanity? It’s all that matters. Why would you throw that away?
They are beautiful and deadly, loving us and hating us.
After surviving a childhood too boring to repeat in polite company, he’d become a DJ at an easy listening station too boring to play in polite company.
Just because it tantrums, Persephone had added, doesn’t make it more right.
Ronan, the middle brother, defended his safety by being as frightening as possible. Like the other Lynch brothers, he was a regular churchgoer, but most people assumed he played for the other team.