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So far Miss Phoebe Stephens-Prince is the best thing about this book.

I can't believe Will is this naive.

This guy's name is Secretan, but I keep thinking of him as Secretarian, which is nearly a horse.

Every time I see the cover of this book I think one of the characters is in a wheelchair and I get excited only to realize it's just a chair. EVERY TIME.

"She inserted a smile onto her face, like someone clicking a component into place."

"It is unfortunate that, sometimes, the only way to find out how something fits together is to take it apart."

I don't want to know, exactly, how these people go to the bathroom, but because it's not addressed I keep thinking about it.

Between the unrelenting peril and the shock of a completely alien biosphere this is exhausting.

"Nobody had actually expected Big Life, though. Nobody had been looking for a son of a bitch bigger than the actual drone. It wasn’t going to fit in a sampling canister, that was for sure."

"Trey gives him a look like if he was any dumber she’d have to water him."

"In another corner is a dilapidated cartwheel that Trey found somewhere, which they’re keeping on the grounds that you never know."

These two have earned their workshop and their matching dogs, and I'm glad we get to see them happy before whatever shit's about to come down.

"a great big shiny dickswing of an iPhone"

Cal isn't accusing the kids (and his police department) of being woke, but it sure sounds like he wants to.

"Mart’s cookies are elaborate constructions of pink fluffy marshmallow, jam and coconut that, to Cal, look like something you would use to bribe a five-year-old in a great big hair bow into quitting her tantrum."

"Cal takes another big, leisurely mouthful of sandwich, washes it down with a long gulp of beer, and wipes foam off his tache."

His what now? Is tache a thing people actually say?

Few things are as satisfying as getting the band back together.

She took one look at me, inhaled like an arrow being drawn back, and shouted, “Have you lost your mind?”

"White rural communities that house prisons wind up with more people in state legislatures representing them, while poor communities of color lose representatives because it appears their population has declined. This policy is disturbingly reminiscent of the three-fifths clause in the original Constitution."

Oh, but he's wearing hiking boots instead of Topsiders.

Also a big yes on Gansey's salmon colored shorts.

But Ronan's back tattoo is fucking awesome.

I've read this book too many times to calmly accept a graphic adaptation. I'm like Gansey's watch isn't big enough Blue's clothes aren't weird enough Adam's not wearing his Coke shirt.

The historical anthropologist Gerald Sider once wrote, “We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were institutionally created and guaranteed along with it.”

A female character in a male body is being referred to as he/him by the other characters, and there's been absolutely no discussion about it and it's making me anxious.

"Here you go," he said with the kind of miserabalist cheer exclusive to night-shift workers on very basic pay.

Curse your sudden but inexplicable betrayal.

“Where’s the crew?” she asked.

“They stepped out for a moment.” Aaron paused, thinking. “They might be some time.”

This book doesn't deserve to use that line.

But, due to all these OCR errors, tonight we're going to party like it's 2009.

"the growth of the penal apparatus”

I'm sorry but lol