“My words are unerring tools ofdestruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”

“I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space”

“At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.”

“I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.”

“World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead /Robbed of my voice I'm always giving /Thousands of words to this nameless dread.”

“Well,” said Ronan, “I hope he likes it. I’ve pulled a muscle.”Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.”“Opening my hood.”

“She jumped off my bed and shoved my stack of books over; thousands of words crashed onto the floor.”