Adam mused, “Incorruptus. I never thought anyone would use that word to describe Lynch.” Ronan looked as pleased as a pit viper ever could.

They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.

Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue’s wonder made it holy.

It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside.

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

But I'm not dead, " Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

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

(Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?" Malory: "Oh, sweet heavens!")

I don't believe in raw evil." Noah said, "It doesn't care if you believe in it

She stood on the ledge of his smile and looked over the edge.

Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.

In success, people see only the product. But they do not know the details of the process.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that it [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true.