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This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared do...more

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Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue’s wonder...more

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It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

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I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

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Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--""Drugs...more

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I wish you could be kissed, Jane,” he said. “Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.” He flailed an arm toward the stars.

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In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirte...more

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Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It...more

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

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This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby,” Calla said.

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Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.

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I don't care to be pretty," Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.