Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead.I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine...

Was it okay? Adam had turned down so many offers of help from Gansey. Money for school, money for food, money for rent. Pity and charity, Adam had thought. For so long, he’d wanted Gansey...

It’s easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don’t understand. Something that makes them feel strong or...

He was every angel and every devil.

Fine,” she said. She threw her bag in the backseat and climbed in after.

One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I...

Piper’s lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you...

I whisper like the sea in the horse’s ear.

His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and...

One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it’s all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can’t explain it.” ~Sam

It’s only because I’ve lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he’s not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there’s nothing for it but to wait.

You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper.

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

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.