Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

Reality's what other people dream for 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.

Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.

At this, Gansey rolled over onto his back and folded his hands on his chest. He wore a salmon polo shirt, which, in Blue’s opinion, was far more hellish than anything they’d discussed to this point.

The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.

We must seek the spirituality of the soul, to find our sacred-path.

There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away.