...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

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

He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick gestures, the way he sucked in his lower lip to think before going on - I was in love with all of it.