a non-comprehensive list of my favorite lines from the dream thieves
Ronan Lynch lived with every type of secret.
He'd always said Ronan differently from other words. As if he'd 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.
His pulse surged in him, the thrill of creation. The ragged awe of making something from nothing.
If Adam had been thinking straight, he would've considered how it was Ronan who had infinite connections to St. Agnes.
Taken apart that way, it seemed to have Ronan written all over it. But one of the marvelous things about being Ronan Lynch was that no one ever expected him to do anything nice for anyone.
No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil.
The problem with getting the facts about Declan from Ronan was that Ronan always assumed his brother was lying. Of course, usually he was.
To think about it was to become immobilized with the horror of watching Adam be consumed from the inside out.
Ronan could not kill him, no matter how much Orphan Girl begged. It was Adam.
"I'll put it back on." Please work.
This Ronan was a dangerous and hollowed-out creature. He was a snare for you to step your foot in.
Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.
The only reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.
Adam, startled, stared at where Ronan's hand gripped his wrist. Ronan could feel his own heart pounding, and in Adam's wrist, Adam's.
"Don't fucking swear," Ronan said.
This was not a rattlesnake hidden in the grass, but a deadly coral snake striped with warning colors. Everything about him was a warning: If this snake bit you, you had no one to blame but yourself.
He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.
He would be Cabeswater's hands and Cabeswater's eyes, but he wouldn't be Cabeswater.. He would be Adam Parrish.
Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.
