Your hair is all funky in the morning.

Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

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

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

The world needs more love at first sight.