It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.
I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.
I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.
Gansey turned the key. The engine turned over once, paused for the briefest of moments – and then roared to deafening life. The Camaro lived to fight another day. The radio was even working, playing the Stevie Nicks song that always sounded to Gansey like it was about a one-winged dove.
Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.
He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.
Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.
Boys like him didn’t die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.
He was struck by the details of the moment. This was something he needed to remember, when he dreamt. This feeling right here: heart thudding, pollen sticky on his fingertips, July pricking sweat at his breastbone, the smell of gasoline and someone else’s charcoal grill.
Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.
In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.
The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.
Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.
He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: “Take me with you.” He woke up.
This car was a very pretty lie.
She couldn’t make it untrue.
Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.
I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.
Hello, lovely. You’re as pretty as pretty today.
Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.