I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren’t the same thing.
Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt.
I couldn’t imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.
If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.
He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places – striding. Walking was for ordinary people.
Clutter is my natural habitat.
I had this feeling that he and I, in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.
There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn’t remember what the sky looked like. But I didn’t die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.
You could write a book about things that you can’t find on-line.
And then I did laugh, even though the future was a dangerous place, because I loved her, and she loved me, and the world was beautiful.
I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.
Hello, Grace’s parents. I’m Grace’s boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter’s mouth.
To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.
My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.
Silence was never a wrong answer.
It’s a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.
In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don’t have to see something to know it is there.
Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.
Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.
It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.