It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.

Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.

Pain was a torn piece of paper.

What do you mean Ronan's a magical entity? Is he a demon? Because this all makes sense if so.

Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.

Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage.

His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey

I take it we're friends now, " Henry said. "We must be, " Gansey replied. "Jane says it should be so.""It should be so, " Blue agreed.

He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended.

Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic there was in the world. How much magic that wasn't just buried in a tomb. He was feeling it now.

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.

Isolation is not a healthy ‘coping’ method, it’s like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!

We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

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‎I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.

Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.