For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.
- Rilke

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.