“i know that you're so afraid, i feel it too. you know i can see the pain inside of you. i know i'm not going anywhere when the silence hits the air, you'll know it too.”

“Blaise looked at him, fixing on his eyes. They were blue, very blue. Bluer than the blue sky in summer. A little more intense. A little more blue. (…) Theodore Nott… Nott was smart. He was brilliant. A genius. Blaise had never found himself admiring someone so much as he admired Theo. His admiration for Theo was so deep that he felt his vanity diminished.”