I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside your window and Puck Connolly in your bed and I'll buy from you instead of Malvern. That's your future for you.

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.

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'.