Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

He was uncomfortable with the idea that use might not like him.

I'll cook the water.

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back