455 quotes found
Author · American · 1981
American author (born 1981)
“Pain was a torn piece of paper.”
“whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you!”
“He was every angel and every devil.”
“Fuck the past. This was the present.”
“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
“You two are too cute, the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the counter. She had a sort of lopsided, open smile that made me think she laughed a lot. Seriously. How lo...”
“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”
“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
“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.”
“Ronan said, "I'm always straight."Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.”
“right in this moment, I cant even remember what unhappy feels like.”
“Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. Oh my God, what is THAT? I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. In my language, ...”
“You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because w...”
“When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The Blue that was before her stood inches from a boy in an Aglionby sweater. There was a sli...”
“Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.”
“And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this momen...”
“Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.”
“Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is comple...”
“Voicemail #1: Hi, Isabel Culpeper. I am lying in my bed, looking at the ceiling. I am mostly naked. I am thinking of your mother. Call me.Voicemail #2: The first minute and thirty seconds of Ive G...”
“I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence...”
“What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.”
“He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Gra...”
“Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.”
“In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.”