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“Declan looked like the kind of person you forgot you’d ever seen. Ronan looked like the kind of person that made you cross to the other side of the street.”

“The idea of Adam Parrish on a motorcycle was more than enough birthday present for Ronan; he was senselessly turned on.”

“He didn’t think Adam was angry with him, but things had been different since the dorm was destroyed. Quieter, sort of. Ronan didn’t know how to make things right again, and he was afraid of making things more wrong.
So he just texted him: dreamt of you.”

Ronan dreamt of summer, of Adam.

“Gansey texted back: don’t make me get on a plane I’m currently chained to one of the largest black walnut trees in Oregon”

“What’s the face for?”
“I want it too much,” Adam said.

“This was as Ronan remembered it. Adam’s ribs fit against his ribs just as they had before. His arms wrapped around Adam’s narrow frame the same way they had before. His hand still pressed against the back of Ronan’s skull the way it always did when they hugged. His voice was missing his accent, but now it sounded properly like him as he murmured into Ronan’s skin: “You smell like home.”

“It’s the stuff between stars, the space between roots, the thing that makes electricity get up in the morning. It fucking hates us.”

“On weekends, he spent Mass regretfully apologizing to God for his hubris”

“Does any part of you still look at the sky and hurt?”