Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grins at me. "And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning.

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

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.