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

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.

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.

I don't care to be pretty, " Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.

The most challenging thing about love is sometimes we love someone who loves someone else.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.

I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.