The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

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

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

a life is measured by moments like these

I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.