The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.

As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.

Beer makes people deaf.

I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I'd scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try.