He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

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

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning.

They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.

'We have to be back in three hours,' Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This,' Gansey replied, 'is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with 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.

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God.

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.

Joy is not in things it is in us.

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

I thought of breaking down the door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all, sitting in my place.

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.