She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.

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

Gift of time in me enclosed the future suddenly exposed

Sam, I really want to buy a red coffee pot, if they exist," Grace said. "I'll find you one

In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

If the waitress comes, order me a coffee and something that involves bacon.

Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent words to untangle it) Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming, So that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star I was beginning to undertand poetry.