a dumb screenshot of youth

“Not everyone needs a reason to care … You and I don’t. These animals are priceless to us, just for existing.”

"Just 'cus someone makes a mistake in their past don't mean they're always gonna go on making that same mistake forever and ever"

"When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything."

"Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other."

"In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys."

"What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?"

"Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards."

"For the present, it is easier for us to turn away. Our repulsion, you see, will not spur us to revolt until this plague moves much closer to home."

"Three days of walking with strangers. It was the kind of potentially awful experience she needed."

"They will not use my tears for their entertainment."

"I have never seen a dead body or a female nipple. This is what comes from living in a cul de sac."

"It doesn't matter how lenient, how gracious, how invested in your education they make out to be. Masters are masters in the end."

“Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.”

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?" "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej. "Gun to the back?" said Jesper. "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina. "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”

"There turned out to be a difference between knowing something terrible might be true, and discovering it was definitely true."

"Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say."