Well, this was disappointing. I supposed I had jumped to a rather large conclusion, with the help of my research. It just went to show that Wikipedia was a liar and Google a whore.


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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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