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It was a senseless sort of dance, artful and confused. Blue and Maura had their own orbit; Maura and Calla another. He watched Maura's bare feet circle on the kitchen floor. It was the opposite of everything he had cultivated for the past five years. How he wanted to stay. This isn't a life for what you are, he told himself. But for tonight, he would pretend.

This lived in him. This punch, the first time his father had ever hit him, was always being thrown somewhere in his head.

She beamed at him. She had one of those lovely, open, perfect smiles, genuinely happy and very beautiful. The Gray Man thought, This is the worst decision I've ever made.

“There wasn't a day during his first month at Aglionby Academy when he hadn't doubted his decision to come there. The other boys were so alien and daunting; he would never be able to look like one of them. How incredibly naive he'd been to think he would ever possess a room like one of the other Aglionby students did.” Me @ Rollins

He looked nothing like the Adam who'd lost his temper and everything like the Adam she had first met. That was what was frightening, though — there d been no warning.

Noah had not been Catholic when he was alive, but recently he had decided to find religion. No one in the church ever noticed him and it was possible God didn't, either, but Ronan, as someone God possibly ignored as well, didn't mind the company.

Adam knew it was a favor. Did that make it wrong? He'd said no for so long that he didn't know when to say yes…He hated the careful way Gansey had asked him about it. Tiptoeing, just like Adam had learned to tiptoe around his father. He needed a reset button. Just push the reset button on Adam Parrish and start him again.

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn't come with agony.