you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.

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

Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order to have my moment back. I make a note to use the method in the future.

Beer makes people deaf.

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.

It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.