Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace’s relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long...

Blue remained secretly hopeful that, somewhere out there in the world, there were other odd people like her.

Mein Herz pumpte flüssiges Sonnenlicht.

As the sun shines low and red across the water, I wade into the ocean. The water is still high and brown and murky with the memory of the storm, so if there’s something below...

Sam- ” After you were bitten, i knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so i could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt.” Grace- ” How long...

…all she could think was ‘This is how close a kiss is’. It felt every bit as dangerous as she’d imagined.

He’s a pit bull,” Adam said.”I know some really nice pit bulls.””He’s the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey’s trying to restrain him.””How noble.

I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed.I missed the shape...

We have to be back in three hours,” Ronan said. “I just fed Chainsaw but she’ll need it again.””This,” Gansey replied “is precisely why I didn’t want to have a baby with you.

Adam wasn’t certain what came first with Blue–her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence...

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye

You’re not going to die,” I told her, lifting my head to look at her. “I’m not done writing songs about you yet.

You could write a book about things that you can’t find on-line.

Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

Behind him, he heard Ronan say, “I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck off.

Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. “You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn’t see you very well.””And not enough time mostly naked in front...

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

Being the Magician isn’t about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don’t,” Persephone said.”The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical.

It’s a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.

We had this big grill at his house, and I remember, one night he said, ‘Sam, tonight you’re feeding us,’ He showed me how to push on the middle of the steaks to see how...

Unrequited love,” I’d say. He’d look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, “what about it?” and I’d reply, “it’s not your color.” Pithy. Just to show him that I’d noticed....

I wish you’d answer.

Ronan’s bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing where he looked like both the dangerous Ronan he was now and the...

His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

As I pulled aside the linen curtain to the back room, I heard the front door open again. If it was Christina returning to make a second effort at my leggings, I was going to...

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

All food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious.

Drugs?””Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?””No. But maybe rituals.””Drugs might be better.

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn’t underneath it

Sensitive,” I tried.Sam translated: “Squishy.””Creative.””Dangerously emo.””Thoughtful.””Feng shui.”I laughed so hard I snorted. “How do you get feng shui out of ‘thoughtful’?””You know, because in feng shui, you arrange furniture and plants and stuff in thoughtful...

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the...

[…] Aglionby boys, who often thought rudeness was a louder sort of flirting.

I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam.

That better be a promise.

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend’s blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. “I...

As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that ancient Anglo-Saxons had graciously passed on to him. Everything about...

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

…He kissed me again, farther up my neck, and I pushed him back against the wall.My mind searched for the logical thought, a rational life raft before I drowned in wanting to hiss him. I...

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn’t reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole’s wolf tozin pumps through her veins,...

Strangely, I thought of the emotion I ought to feel without feeling it, as impartial as a National Geographic field researcher, carefully watching the events and chronicling them in a notebook. Deirdre finds that she...

I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad...

sloughing my skin / escaping it’s grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

Listening to him tell the story now, it was clear to Adam that Glendower was more than a historical figure to Gansey. He was everything Gansey wished he could be: wise and brave, sure of...

Ronan didn’t need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I’d got too close.The smell of summer on her...

I lost a horse today.”That sounds careless. What happened?”She jumped off a cliff.”A cliff! Is that normal?

You know what I mean. I’m telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn’t have the time to be a good parent. Obviously,...

Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn’t forget it on mornings like this one—fall fog rising out of the fields and lifting in front...