It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

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.

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.

He loved me and didn't want me hurt. What was worse, he didn't even understand that I had the right to be hurt.

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

I learn things late-and only the hard way.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.’ (Acheron)