“The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”

“I wondered if your eye color meant you saw the world differently. If the world saw you differently as a result.”

“I would dazzle you with brilliance, if I only had the knack. Cause I like you just the way you are.”

“I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.”

“Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can.”

“She breathed. "This is lovely."It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.”