July 3rd aka Adam Parrish’s birthday! Anyway, here are some quotes that are my favorite and/or resonate with me.
“He always said Ronan differently from other words. As if he had meant to say another word entirely—something like knife or poison or revenge—and then swapped it out for Ronan’s name at the last moment.” (2)
“The second secret was perfect in its concealment. Ronan did not say it. Ronan did not think it. He never put lyrics to the second secret, the one he kept from himself. But it still played in the background.” (4)
“They were not quite conventionally handsome, but they were interesting.” (8)
“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.” (11)
“When Ronan had been smaller and more forgiving of miracles, he’d considered the moment of death with rhapsodic delight.” (21)
“Ronan, a sinner himself, wasn’t as struck by the transgression as he was by Gansey’s insistence that they continue to pretend Adam was a saint.” (24)
“Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and become someone else entirely.” (31)
“Creature was a good word for him, Ronan thought. What the hell am I?” (35)
“Neither could really help the other find sleep. But sometimes it was better just to know you weren’t the only one awake.” (35)
“They never got torn down. They just got forgotten.” (36)
“Back then, it had surprised Ronan; he hadn’t realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.” (37)
“His thoughtless expression was one of wonder or of pain; with Gansey, they were so often the same thing.” (37)
“They went and got some orange juice.” (41)
“No, she thought. No, it’s not about that. It’s about what I do, not what I am.” (45)
“It wasn’t what he said but how he looked at no one when he said it that made the moment strange.” (48)
“What do you want, Adam? To feel awake when my eyes are open.” (58)
“This was easier, Adam thought suddenly, when we didn’t know each other.” (59)
“If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.” (60)
“No one could deny that Gansey was a glorious portrait of youth, the well-tended product of a fortunate and moneyed pairing.” (70)
“Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with agony.” (71)
“But one of the marvelous things about being Ronan Lynch was that no one ever expected him to do anything nice for anyone.” (72)
“Because they couldn’t talk about that. Just like they couldn’t talk about Adam stealing the Camaro that night. Or about him basically doing everything Gansey had asked him not to.” (74)
“If he were a god, he thought, this would be precisely how he’d create his new world. Unrolling it like a carpet.” (77)
“He wouldn’t forget the sensation of the dream. It hadn’t been joy, but instead, the absence of pain. He couldn’t forget that lightness. The freedom.” (78)
“In the rearview mirror, he allowed himself the slightest of smiles. This was what it felt like to be happy.” (97)
“She’d never been any good at having casual friends.” (98)
“When the boys came to her house, they stopped being everyone else.” (98)
“Without cutting her gaze over to him, she already knew what she would see. She would see a rich boy dressed like a mannequin and coiffed like a newscaster—but his eyes were like the dreaming pool in Cabeswater. He hid the insatiable wanting well, but now that she’d seen it once, she couldn’t stop seeing it.” (101)
“It was powerful thing, that laugh. He only did it once, but his eyes remained shaped like it.” (103)
“And it was this friendship, all wordless glances and wry twists of the mouth, that made Adam think that Gansey must be cruel.” (115)
“Ronan and Gansey were laughing, he thought, at a joke where the rest of the world was the punch line.” (116)
“Gansey had pivoted and in his slow, lovely accent, said, ‘Adam Parrish, right?’” (116)
“They had enough time to lift their heads and look at one another. Then the engine expired.” (120)
“It was becoming a nightmare. Ronan could hear the night horrors coming, in love with his blood and his sadness.” (128)
“Gansey ran over the memory until he no longer felt the thrill of hearing Glendower’s name whispered in his ear, and then instead gave himself over to feeling sorry for himself, that he should have so many friends and yet feel so very alone.” (132)
“He felt it fell to him to comfort them, but never the other way around. As it should be, he thought, abruptly angry with himself. You've had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can’t stand on your own legs?” (132)
“Gansey had a pure logicless moment where his stomach dropped and he thought, I don’t know who any of my friends really are.” (134)
“It was easier for Gansey to wrap his head around a Ronan who made dreams real than a Ronan who wanted to die.” (135)
“‘What is it I’m preparing myself for?’ ‘What’s in my head.’” (136)
“The only reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.” (145)
“‘I remember,’ Gansey said thoughtfully to Ronan, ‘when you used to smell like this.’” (154)
“He didn’t say what Ronan was thinking, which was that Gansey was far more of a brother to Ronan than Declan had ever been.” (154)
“That look, Blue thought. Ronan Lynch would do anything for Gansey. I probably would, too, she thought.” (163)
“Blue and Gansey exchanged a look. Blue’s look said, I’m so, so sorry. Gansey’s said, Am I the pretty one?” (165)
“If I was your favorite, he asked his dead father, why did you leave me a home I could never return to?” (172)
“What a hero, the Gray Man thought. Another Arthur.” (179)
“He felt grown old inside his young skin. I tire of wonders, he thought.” (195)
“The unfairness of it, the wanting, kept her up some nights.” (202)
“But this version of Gansey was Gansey the boy. This was the Gansey who bought the Camaro, the Gansey who asked Ronan to teach him to fight, the Gansey who contained every wild spark so that it wouldn’t show up in other versions.” (209)
“The trip of his pulse became a kick drum.” (210)
“This was Gansey with a lofty tilt to his chin, a condescending quirk to his mouth. A Gansey that was aware that no matter what went down here tonight, he would still go back to Monmouth Manufacturing and rule his particular corner of the world. This was a Gansey, Ronan realized, that Adam would hate.” (215)
“‘While I’m gone,’ Gansey said, pausing, ‘dream me the world. Something new for every night.’“ (219)
“And then, in the dark next to the Champagne Travesty, he kissed her. Neither of them had kissed someone else in a while, but it didn’t much matter. Kissing’s a lot like laughing. If the joke’s funny, it doesn't matter how long it’s been since you last heard one.” (224)
“In its place was the ten of swords: the Gray Man slain on the ground and Maura the sword driven through his heart.” (225)
“His head was a tumble of burning cars and ancient Camaro wheels and the destruction of everything Blue had said to him.” (232)
“As they sailed up and over the roof of Monmouth, Gansey caught a last image of Ronan sarcastically blowing him a kiss before turning his head away.” (232)
“Gansey turned his eyes to Adam, who looked more like himself than he had in ages. He silently vowed to do whatever it took to keep him that way.” (237)
“As they baked in the sunlight, she let herself think it: I have a crush on Richard Gansey.” (240)
“Ronan rationed the music from their old life, as if he used up a bit of his memories of his father every time he played it.” (246)
“And just like that, the Gansey who Adam had befriended—the Gansey he would do anything for—vanished, and in his place was the heir born with a silk umbilical cord wrapped round his blue-blooded neck.” (256)
“Adam remembered all at once what it felt like to feel, to be real, to be Adam, instead of my friend, Adam Parrish, give him your card.” (264)
“Ronan rolled his wrist to flip his middle finger at Kavinsky. Muscle memory.” (267)
“Screaming along with the thousands of tiny explosions beneath the hood was a place where Ronan felt nothing but uncomplicated happiness, a dead and empty place in his heart where he needed nothing else.” (270)
“The car was Gansey’s religion, and Ronan found it a worthy god.” (270)
“‘We’re older than we used to be.’ ‘When?’ ‘Just a minute ago. We’re getting older all the time.’” (280)
“He was Adam Parrish, army of one.” (281)
“What he wanted was to be home, and home wasn’t here.” (287)
“Once, he’d been stabbed with a screwdriver—Phillips head, bright blue handle—and falling in love with Maura Sargent was exactly the same.” (289)
“‘He’s having a coming-of-age moment.’” (297)
“He was wasted on dreams.” (321)
“It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish’s nothing.” (326)
“... he just wanted. Cicadas sang madly from the trees. It was so impossibly summer. He wanted to stay.” (331)
“The old Ronan Lynch’s laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. This Ronan knew there was crap in the world, but he was laughing anyway.” (337)
“This was her favorite Gansey, the scholar Gansey, not a hint of Aglionby about him.” (360)
“‘I’m just saying it because I’m trying to understand how I could have been so many places and yet this is the only place that feels like home. This is the only place I belong. And because I’m trying to understand how, if I belong here, it...’ ‘—hurts so much,’ Blue finished.” (365)
“He was going to say I missed you. But he had been missing Niall Lynch for as long as he knew him.” (369)
“How terrible it would be, Blue thought, her mind on Adam again, to not have a mother who loved you?” (372)
“(I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting)” (373)
“At 300 Fox Way, Adam quietly turned eighteen.” (375)
“Gansey looked like a king, even sitting in the shabby backseat of the shared Fox Way vehicle. Perhaps especially when sitting in the backseat of a shabby vehicle.” (376)
“And here was the pool and the dreaming tree. The first place Cabeswater had changed itself for Gansey, and the first place magic had truly revealed itself to all of them.” (387)
“But at the moment, eighteen and freedom seemed a lot closer than it had before, and it didn’t matter.” (401)
“He held Ronan’s gaze for just a moment longer, until something inside Ronan unwound and he almost said something.” (415)
“She was holding his hand, crouched down next to him. ‘Why do you hate you?’ ... ‘I don’t,’ he said. And he woke up.” (417)
“‘The world’s a nightmare.’” (425)
“For some reason, although he had arrived with them, he felt as if he had been alone for a very long time, and now no longer was.” (426)
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