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

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.

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.

The living are more demanding

She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.