Maggie Stiefvater

Is this thing safe?""Safe as life," Gansey replied.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

You have to take it off the table,' Jeremy said, finally. 'It's always going to be an option, otherwise. You're going to have to give it up and mean it, or it'll always be your solution when things go bad.

He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road.

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.

They didn't even had the authority to choose an alcoholic beverage. They couldn't be deciding who deserved to live or die.

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can__ replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.

You__e my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.

Piper__ lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident.

Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.

Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played.

All of us have secrets in our lives. We__e keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches _ that__ what will be left at the end of it all.

Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency.

Because Niall Lynch was the biggest liar of them all, and he__ stuffed all of that into his eldest son. There was not much difference between a lie and a secret.