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.

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

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.

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

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

No truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she's happy. She just is.

Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girlsare always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.

Walk on your own sacred path.

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Evil is a form of incompetence.

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

It's not what the world gives you, but what you can give it. I'm lucky. I can give the world talent. I can explain it and show it to people. That's what I love doing. I just love it.