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What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah.
"Noah took a personal day."
"I lost..." Noah struggled for words. "There wasn't air. It went away. The - the line!"
"The ley line?" Gansey asked.
Noah nodded once, a sloppy thing that was sort of a shrug at the same time. "There was nothing ... left for me." Releasing Ronan, he shook out his hands.
"You're welcome, man," Ronan snarled. He still couldn't feel his toes.
"Thanks. I didn't mean to ... you were there. Oh, the glitter."
"Yes," Ronan replied crossly. "The glitter.


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"It's called being dead," Ronan replied.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Haven’t you heard of being hung, drawn, and quartered?”
Blue asked, “Is it as painful as ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Saw him where?"
"While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts."
This seemed to sa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I never taught him to break his thumb."
"That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Her name's Chainsaw," replied Ronan, without looking up. Then: "Noah. You're creepy as hell back the...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Good evening," said Ronan. "Students, are you? And do you learn much, up at the school?"
"Erm -...
J.K. ROWLING No homework. I got suspended,” Blue replied.
“Get the fuck out,” Ronan said, but with ad...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Now Gansey grinned, the warmth of discovery starting to course through him. "So, pop quiz, Mr Parris...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Noah: "You wanna dance with me?"
Allie: "Sure. Now?"
Noah: "Mmm Hmm"
Allie: "You're n...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Did you get notes for me?"
"No", Ronan replied,"I thought you were dead in a ditch.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER No, I mean with us. Do you think we would have made it?"

It took a moment for her to answ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Ronan pointed at the cart. "Get in there."
"What?"
He just continued pointing.
Adam ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I know when I'm awake and when I'm asleep," Ronan Lynch said.
Adam Parrish, curled over himself...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Tell me something, Noah. Which is more important: freedom or happiness?'

What was this, a...
MICHAEL GRANT Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Noah shifted on the bed, and the oddest crunching sound came underneath him. I looked, really looked...
MICHELLE HODKIN Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Is there any point asking what you're going to make me do on Sunday?'
'Not really.'
Okay. ...
MICHELLE HODKIN Adam finally sat down on one of the pews. Laying his cheek against the smooth back of it, he looked ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Have you kissed many boys before?" he asked quietly.
His question brought my mind back into fo...
MICHELLE HODKIN You weren't out there that long, were you? I can't bear to think that no one found you right away."<...
NICHOLAS SPARKS We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fix me," I commanded him. "This thing, what I've done - there's something wrong with me, Noah. Fix i...
MICHELLE HODKIN That sounds like a blast. I’m definitely in,” Shane added once we filled him in on our idea.
ANDREA HELTSLEY Dreamers are to be classified as weapons.
Ronan already knew he was a weapon ; but he was tryi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Portia followed after, a smirk on her face, and Syc hissed as he passed.
Donegan waited till th...
DEREK LANDY No homework. I got suspended,” Blue replied.
“Get the fuck out,” Ronan said, but with adm...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Jacob smiled from ear to ear when he shook the man’s hand on stage. The man then handed him a trop...
KATIE MCGARRY His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous.
Jacob noticed my scrutiny.
What?" he as...
STEPHENIE MEYER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ladies and gentlemen, Jamal Feldstein-Roth.”
I blinked. “Wait, Jamal?”
“Suc...
MICHELLE HODKIN In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me.
He looked up at me t...
MICHELLE HODKIN Young Noah: [humming] Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
Young Allie:...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I'll tell you a secret. A raven created the world. When Noah sent him out to find land, he couldn't ...
NEIL GAIMAN I love you.”

I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from ...
JENNIFER ECHOLS What do we do while we wait for my parents to find Jersey?” She let him go, took a step back.
KASI BLAKE Adam's response was buried in the sound of the first-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he me...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Noah?"
A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across...
KATIE MCGARRY You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?"
"Yes, he did."
"When did he say ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I was warned about you, you know."
And with that half-smile that wrecked me, Noah said, "But yo...
MICHELLE HODKIN You," I said, "have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artis...
SARAH DESSEN Asscrown," I muttered under my breath as I headed to my next class. I wasn't proud of swearing at a ...
MICHELLE HODKIN As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I just shook my head, knowing this was him evading the question.
You," I said, "have this whole...
SARAH DESSEN My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood.
Dracula was dead. Rex was dyin...
PATRICK JENNINGS Wait," I said as Noah slipped a book from a shelf and headed toward the door. "Where are you going?"...
MICHELLE HODKIN "Conversation"

God and I in space alone . . .
and nobody else in view . . .
"And wh...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX To think you could have been dreaming the cure for cancer," Blue said. "Look, Sargent," Ronan retort...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I hate you," I muttered.
Noah smiled wider. "I know.
MICHELLE HODKIN THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS You’re stuck,” I blurted, his grin died and he blinked.
“Come again?”
I swallowed,...
KRISTEN ASHLEY He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink.
"Yes,...
JERRY SPINELLI Daisy pulled away from Swift’s grasp. “You’ve changed,” she said, trying to collect herself....
LISA KLEYPAS After a while Mary said, “Zsadist?”

“Yeah?”

“What are those markings...
J.R. WARD Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lo...
MADELINE MILLER Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it i...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Noah rests both of his hands below my butt, and before I can move closer to him, he lifts me and pro...
KATIE MCGARRY and Gansey, hearing the longing in her voice like he was being undone, like his own feelings were be...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?

His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Adam retreated to sit beside Mary as Ronan stretched out on the pew, rubbing out the dingy plan with...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She sucked in a shuddering breath, and he pulled back far enough for them to share breath. Her finge...
SARAH J. MAAS I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit...
LOREN EISELEY To go home, you usually will use that door over there." I looked where Trom gestured and saw empty s...
JENNIFER PRIESTER I like holding it at the base.”

It’s too long for you,” he insisted, “which is w...
LISA KLEYPAS About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the...
LAURA WHITCOMB Dearest Annie,
Roses are red. Violets are blue. I’m using my hand But I’m thinking of you....
L.H. COSWAY I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?"
Pass,...
SARAH DESSEN Can you sharpen this for me, please?”

Logan leaned across the table and took the pencil...
ELLA FRANK He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “We
both know I’m not a gentlem...
CATE TIERNAN Demon pox, oh demon pox
Just how is it acquired?
One must go down to the bad part of town<...
CASSANDRA CLARE He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER No. He was not here to wreak revenge.
For revenge was trifling and hollow.
No. He was not ...
RENEE AHDIEH I waited for him to say something more, but he was quiet.
"Was there something you wanted?" I a...
STEPHENIE MEYER Two seconds later, the sound of an alarm filled my ears.
''What did you do?'' I said over the ...
MICHELLE HODKIN But it was not the note that counted so much as the writing of it.
Just because it wouldn’t l...
AMANDA HOWELLS There once was a young man from Lyme
Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme
When asked "Why...
ANONYMOUS What were you thinking about just
now while you were looking out the window?" To his surprise, ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY What are my options?"
"You could read obscure poetry while I play the triangle, I suppose. Or w...
MICHELLE HODKIN Where are You Now? I was there whilst you cried,

I was there to comfort you with smile, LUISA NATASHA PARKER A learned man came to me once.
He said, "I know the way, -- come."
And I was overjoyed at ...
STEPHEN CRANE I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don't live together so I wrote what...
KATIE MCGARRY When, some months later, Zoltan emailed me about his decision to run for president, I immediately ca...
MARK O'CONNELL So word by word, and line by line,
The dead man touch'd me from the past,
And all at once ...
ALFRED TENNYSON It Couldn't Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle repli...
EDGAR A. GUEST How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.”
H...
JULIA QUINN The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I was covered in blood.

The second thi...
MICHELLE HODKIN Sure you are," Jack replied. He sashayed up next to me, and yes, it was a sashay, he was far too dam...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You'...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he me...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The world needs more love at first sight.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Where do you live?"
Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving"
"That's not re...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them.
Their magic. Their quest. Their awf...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go awa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I’m going in,” Gansey said as Ronan sat down on the step beside Adam. As Gansey shut the door be...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?"
He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?"
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."

"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER