People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die." "Ah," said Calla, in a very, very knowing way. "Now I see." "Don't psychoanalyse me," her mother said. "I already have. And I say again, 'ah'.

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

It's like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable - different reactions to the same temperature.

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

Strange what love taught you about your faults.