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Go, go, magic clover.

Tonight, the music was already loud enough to paralyze the finer points of her personality.

Demon's coming! Everyone dies. Except for her useless father. He'll live for ever.

While I'm gone, dream me the world.

I'm so full of an unnamed wanting that I can't bear it.

The way Gansey saw it was this: If you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look. "Hey,

The breeze through the open window scented the interior of the car with leaves and water, growing things and secret things.

Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?"
"They do."
"And why do you?"
"The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.

Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die.

His heart was a grave.

I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.

What do you mean Ronan's a magical entity? Is he a demon? Because this all makes sense if so.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

His skin was a constellation of nerve endings.

You stuffing it down his throat isn't going to make him hungry.

Wick to be certain it was entirely extinguished. Energy like your energy.

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.

A very faraway part of her realized that she was in trouble.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?"
He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

Reality's what other people dream for you.

Well," said Ronan, "I hope he likes it. I've pulled a muscle."
Gansey scoffed, "Doing what? You were standing watch."
"Opening my hood.

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.

Forever?"
Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie.
"Longer.

Past performance really did seem to be the best indicator of future performance.

I was not a disaster.
I had been taken apart and put back together again, and this version of me was unbreakable.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human.

There was silence. It was a slick sort of silence, the sort that would make bystanders turn their head to note it, same as a loud laugh.

He'd learned that lies were only dangerous if you sometimes told the truth.

Although Adam suspected there was a god, he also suspected it didn't actually matter.

Nd me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

She stands beside Corr, looking up at him.
I want her to love him

Every parting felt like it would be the last, and so every return was like a miracle.

Ninety percent of how Ronan conveyed his feelings was through his body language, and a phone simply didn't care.

Ronan was not going to Henry Cheng's under any circumstances. All that smiling and activism gave him a rash.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn't come with agony.

He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

Luke glanced at me, his expression oddly light. "Shh, pretty girl. Let's enjoy ourselves for a bit before you start riddling again ".

The Boy should watch where he's going," she
said.
"Rachel should not manifest in doorways," I
replied.

He waved his bloody finger in a sort of thank-you.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present.

A frightening menagerie, my emotions are
Too many and varied to number
Like creatures they crawl and they fly above
Tearing my body asunder.

I'm getting creeped out. This it totally starting to sound like a horror flick, and everybody knows the hot chick dies first. Let's get out of here.

He was instantly cool and elegant, all true emotions placed in an undisclosed location.

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

You're looking for a god. Didn't you suspect that there was also a devil?

Night fell; that, at least, could still be relied upon.

Neither of them had kissed someone else in a while, but it didn't much matter. Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter

He wondered if he was going to go through each year of his life thinking about how stupid he'd been the year before.

I've been dead for seven years, that's as warm as they get.

Mom, you're the one who said to never stop in case I get raped or picked up by a democrat.

They regarded each other. Adam fair and cautious, Ronan dark and incendiary. This was Ronan at his most truthful.

The choice was death or hurting Adam, which wasn't much of a choice at all.

(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.

Sam did smile then, and said softly, Hey Angel.

Wake me up Wake me up, you said But I was sleeping, too I was dreaming But now Im waking up Still waking up I can see the sun

Blue had two rules: stay away from boys, because they're trouble, and stay away from raven boys, because they were bastards.

She is my mare and my best friend, and I keep waiting for something bad to happen to her, because I love her too much.

Don't throw it away.

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

I'll pour gasoline on everything Dad built and we can just leave the Barns behind.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.

How long do you have to be in a place before it's your home?

Her expression is fierce and uncompromising, full of the intrepid bravery of a small boat in an uncertain sea.

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

It was like when you had been unhappy and didn't know it until you weren't anymore.

His code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. It wasn't that he didn't condone them; he couldn't understand them.

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.

Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.

Also, I was something of an expert on headaches. They were a hobby of mine.

Now Blue looked promptly judgmental, which was about two ticks off from her ordinary expression and one tick off from Ronan's.

I AM JESSE DITTLEY. DID YOU NEVER EAT YOUR GREENS?"
[ ... ] She said, "I lost the genetic roll of the dice."
"DAMN STRAIGHT.

Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.

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.

As they baked in the sunlight, she let herself think it:
I have a crush on Richard Gansey.

To learn a musical instrument. you had to have a certain tolerance for tedium and failure.

When you had as little money as the Sargents did, sensibility in all matters was ingrained young. In

Wake up, you bastard," - he said. "You fucker. I can't believe that you would ... "
And he began to cry.

You will be one of those gods without magic powers. What are they called? "I don't think there is a word." King. Probably. I

Adam held out his right hand, and Gansey clasped it in a handshake, like they were en, because they were men.

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

But by blood, no wolf am I

I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.'
She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.

As a pale-skinned, dark-haired Celtic sort, he didn't care for the heat.

He danced on the knife's edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

But one of the marvelous things about being Ronan Lynch was that no one ever expected him to do anything nice for anyone.

Cabeswater was such a good listener.

Grace," I said, very softly. "Say something."
Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

How right it had felt at each moment he had met them all. How certain that they plunged towards something bigger than even this moment.

His mother's father had been a diplomat, an architect of fortunes; his father's father had been an architect, a diplomat of styles.

She just liked the name, because, for a five-foot-tall girl, pygmy tyrant sounded like a career. All

Pigmy Pouters', Malory replied. 'Feisty ones!' Gansey mouthed Blue at Adam. Adam let out a little wail of helpless laughter.

I just don't - Ronan. My ears are bleeding!
Ronan turned down the music.

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

You're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

You make me want to play music until I fall asleep, and then wake up and play some more.