How can you expect something to heal if you keep poking?
You begin to sound like your princeling, little lily,” Gwenllian said. “And I’m not sure that’s your place. Which is to say, carry on. I’m all for ranks of usurping women.
When you don’t have time to be afraid, I guess it’s easy to be brave.
It was badly against Ronan’s code to be impressed, much less show it.
The Gray Man stood in the doorway behind Maura, his gray suitcase in one hand and a gray jacket slung over the other. He set them both down and straightened. There was that heavy silence that sometimes happens when a hit man enters a room.
Inside yourself, it’s only you who can help you.
There was something else afoot that October, something else stretching and straining and panting, but it was mostly as of yet unseen.
Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid. She said this to me a lot. But when she said it to Gabe, Dad told him that sometimes it just means you need to try harder.
One tree resisted for longer than the others. She was the oldest, and had seen a demon before, and knew that sometimes it wasn’t about saving yourself, it was about holding out for long enough until someone else could save you. So she held out, and stretched for the stars even as her roots were being dug away, and she held out, and she sang to other trees even as her trunk was rotting out, and she held out, and she dreamt of the sky even as she was unmade.
It was against the rules, but Gansey crouched down beside her, one of his knees against her back, one against her knees, and hugged her. She curled against him, hands balled up against his chest. He felt a hot tear slip into the dip of his collarbone. He closed his eyes against the sun through the window, burning hot in his sweater, foot falling asleep, elbow grinding into the metal bed frame, Blue Sargent pressed up against him, and he didn’t move.
I’m just warning you,” Neeve said. “Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.
They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.
Sometimes, when a question is about a secret, people will ask a different but related question, hoping to get an answer that will work for both questions.
He wasn’t certain if it was extremely cute or appallingly ugly, and it bothered him that it managed to be both.
His journey before now had felt like a dream, and a dream can always be changed into something else. But when you are awake, the truth is bright and stark, not as willing to bend to the mind’s will.
He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended.
Whenever Gansey talked to British people about America, they always seemed to think he meant Texas.
Good find, brat,′ he told Chainsaw. ‘Let’s go home.
Success meant nothing to Adam if he hadn’t done it for himself.
A backwards step of self-doubt, a lying promise that you knew would hurt you later, a knowledge that you were going to get hurt and you probably deserved it.