I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.

We don't have time to be sad

Avoidance is a wonderful therapy

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. This was the important thing. It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.