Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr.

Hello, lovely. You're as pretty as pretty today.

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.

I might never ride Corr again. I don't know who I am without him.

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

at last no one decided And no one knocked And no one jumped up And no one opened And there stood no one And no one entered And no one said: welcome And no one answered: at last

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.