How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love. (P.1)
Well that's a pretty grim fate for a girl who hasn't even had her first kiss or been on a real proper date. It's no wonder Blue wants to stay away from boys. According to her fate, it looks like romance will only lead to trouble, anyway.
Quote #2
"There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve, Blue. Either you're his true love," Neeve said, "or you killed him." (1.94)
Blue always wanted to be able to see what her mother and aunts could, but now she's not so sure. In seeing the spirit of this random teenage boy, she now has to live with a burden… the burden of knowing that he's going to die and it'll be her fault.
Quote #3
"I'm not going to stop you from trying to warn him, Blue. But you need to know he's not going to believe you, even if you find him, and it's probably not going to save him, even if he knows. You might keep him from doing something stupid. Or you might just ruin the last few months of his life." (3.31)
Doesn't Blue know that you can't escape death, even if you know it's coming? Just think of all the Final Destination movies. If you try to avoid your fate, you'll end up crushed in a roller coaster accident or something equally gruesome.
Quote #4
Neeve had said this was the year she'd fall in love. Maura had said that she'd kill her true love if she kissed him. Gansey was supposed to die this year. What were the odds? Gansey had to be her true love. He had to be. Because there was no way she was going to kill someone. (6.28)
The whole having-your-future-foretold-by-your-family-members thing is pretty much a huge bummer, but it does keep Blue on her toes. Now that she knows there's a guy named Gansey out there who is supposed to die this year, she knows who to fall in love with. Easy peasy… right?
Quote #5
She reached for the railing of the stairs to keep her balance as President Cell Phone stepped into the hallway.
Oh no. Not him. All this time she'd been wondering how Gansey might die and it turned out that she was going to strangle him. (15.24-25)
Being fated to kill someone like Gansey isn't too bad when he's the most annoying human being in the world. Blue's almost relieved that he turns out to be the dude she's supposed to kill.
Quote #6
I need to tell him he can't kiss me, she thought.
But not yet. Right now, she wanted to feel his skin pressed against hers, both of their pulses rapid and uncertain. (23.95-96)
Man, Blue's love life is really hampered by her stupid fate. Here she is, snuggling up against an attractive teenage boy for the first time in her life, and they can't even make it to first base.
Quote #7
"Well, it's just a very precautionary-sounding sort of thing, isn't it? Don't date or you'll go blind. Kiss your true love and he bites it."
"It's not just her!" Blue protested. "Every psychic or medium I've ever met tells me the same thing. Besides, my mom's not like that. She wouldn't just play around with something like that. It's not pretend." (28.48-49)
What if this whole kiss-your-true-love-and-he-will-die thing was really made up by Blue's mom to keep her away from boys? It would be a pretty ingenious tactic to keep her teenage daughter from getting into trouble.
Quote #8
He exhaled slowly: "I heard a voice. It was a whisper. I won't forget what it said. It said: 'You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.'" (28.90)
Gansey's obsession with ley lines and this old Welsh king named Glendower makes a lot more sense when he reveals that he received a vision as a kid. Apparently he was allowed to live in order to find Glendower… whatever that may entail.
Quote #9
"You win," Adam said finally. He rubbed a hand through his uneven hair. He sounded tired. "Take me to get my stuff."
Gansey had been about to start the Camaro, but he took his hand away from the ignition. "I didn't win anything. Do you think this is how I wanted it?" (38.6-7)
So much for making his own life choices: It looks like Adam is forever fated to remain in the shadow of his best friend, and he resents that. Just because he doesn't have the money doesn't mean that he should constantly be the sidekick character, right?
Quote #10
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master. (45.45)
Adam never really believed in being fated to spend his life a certain way, especially if that meant that he'd be fated to end up like his parents—mean and unhappy in their trailer park. He has to be able to make his own decisions. He has to be able to write his own story.