Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere.


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

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

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