At this, Gansey rolled over onto his back and folded his hands on his chest. He wore a salmon polo shirt, which, in Blue’s opinion, was far more hellish than anything they’d discussed to this point.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

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

Reality's what other people dream for you.

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.

Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.

The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.

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

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

On the journey to self discovery be grateful for the fools along the way. Their lack of kindness fueled your success ~bns

All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins.

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

Loneliness is a strange gift.

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their birth.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

Michele Bachmann told reporters that she will lead the nation in prayer if she is elected president. You know if she is elected president, we all better be praying. She doesn't have to lead us.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.