I'd be happy with this summer if it's all we ever had.

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore

The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains. ---Cole

we're watchers of this world aren't we? not players

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.

Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.

What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.