Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead. Sitting was intolerable. I stood up, paced, clenched and unclenched...
I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girlFrom summer she is made my lovely summer girlI'd love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girlBut I'm never warm enough for my lovely summer girlIt's...
What happened to your face? Blue asked.Adam shrugged ruefully. Either he or Ronan smelled like a parking garage. His voice was self-deprecating. Do you think it makes me look tougher?What it did was m...
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread wo...
Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye. Gansey moved to the opposite side of the bed with surprising swiftness, glancing at Adam...
The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friend...
I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep, Ronan Lynch said.Adam Parrish, curled over himself in a pair of battered, greasy coveralls, asked, Do you?Maybe I dreamt you, he said. Thanks for the straigh...
Not like this. At least you have a place to go. 'End of the world' ... What is your , Adam? I mean, is there something about my place that's too repugnant for you to imagine living there? Why is it th...
There was something unbearably sexy about cars at night, Ronan thought. The way the fenders twisted the light and reflected the road, the way every driver became anonymous. The sight of them knocked h...
But what [Gansey] said was, I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us.Ronan said, I'm always straight.Adam repli...
Gansey turned to Adam, finally. He was still wearing his glorious kingly face, Richard Campbell Gansey III, white knight, but his eyes were uncertain. Is this okay? Was it okay? Adam had turned down s...
The head is too wise. The heart is all fire.
It shouldn't have happened at all, but their friendship had been cemented in only the time it took to get to school that morning - Adam demonstrating how to fasten the Camaro's ground wire more secure...
And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.
He had had his own feelings hurt over and over by Adam, even when Adam had meant no harm. Some of the worst fractures had appeared because Adam hadn't realized the he was causing them.
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.
If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.
He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.
You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me, Gansey said. Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don...
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