How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Mornings at 300 Fox Way were fearful, jumbled things. Elbows in sides and lines for the bathroom and people snapping over tea bags placed into cups that already had tea bags in them. There was school for Blue and work for some of the more productive (or less intuitive) aunts. Toast got burned, cereal went soggy, the refrigerator door hung open and expectant for minutes at a time. Keys jingled as car pools were hastily decided. (3.1)
Ah, home sweet home. Blue may not live in a fancy apartment like Gansey and his friends, but she still has a place that she loves to call home. It just happens to be chaotic and filled with female psychics (who have big personalities).
Quote #2
"There she is," Helen's voice reported directly into Gansey's ears; in the helicopter, they all wore headsets to allow them to converse through the ceaseless noise of the blades and the engine. "Gansey's girlfriend." (22.5)
Gansey's blue-blood family comes from Washington D.C. (after all, they're involved in politics), but he has a serious love affair with the town of Henrietta, Virginia. It's where his heart truly lies.
Quote #3
Ordinarily, home—a sprawling, Cotswold-stone mansion outside of Washington, D.C.—had a sort of nostalgic comfort to it, but today, Gansey had no patience for it. All he could think about was Noah's skeleton and Ronan's terrible grades and the trees speaking Latin. (31.34)
Even though he grew up in his family's mansion like a little prince, Gansey no longer feels entirely comfortable there. He has a whole life—and things to take care of—back home in Henrietta.
Quote #4
For a moment, Ronan and Adam craned their necks, looking around the spread-out space as if they, too, were seeing it for the first time. The vast room, painted red with afternoon sun through the dozens of windowpanes, was beautiful and cluttered. It reminded Blue of the feeling she had when she had first seen Gansey's journal. (32.11)
Gansey's apartment in Manmouth Manufacturing isn't just a gorgeous space—it's also a reflection of his inner life. That's why Adam is so envious of him… Gansey has a place that's his in every sense of the word.
Quote #5
"Where do you live?"
Adam's mouth was very set. "A place made for leaving."
"That's not really an answer."
"It's not really a place." (32.27-30)
The place where you live isn't always your "home," and this is especially true for Adam, who lives in a trailer with his parents and is never comfortable or happy when he's there. It's hard to be happy when your dad is a complete and utter jerk.
Quote #6
"Yes," Adam replied. "When I get out on my own, it will be to someplace I made myself."
"And that's why you go to Aglionby."
He leveled that gaze on her. "And that's why I go to Aglionby." (32.32-34)
Adam isn't just going to Aglionby to amass more wealth than Donald Trump, or to become the most powerful person in the world—he is going there so that he can afford to get a place of his own, a place that will be just his.
Quote #7
Blue had never been a fan of the attic, even before Neeve moved in. Numerous slanting roof lines provided dozens of opportunities to hit your head on a sloping ceiling. Unfinished wood floorboards and areas patched with prickly plywood were unfriendly to bare feet. Summer turned the attic into an inferno. (34.1)
Even though Blue is pretty comfortable in her own house (after all, it's the only home she's ever known), there are still places that make her feel… off. Of course creepy Aunt Neeve's room in the attic would be one of these spots.
Quote #8
"Didn't you feel that place? Do you want it destroyed? How many people do you want tramping through it? Does it seem like a place that can exist full of tourists? It's… holy." (35.46)
As the reigning psychics in Henrietta, Blue's mom and aunts are determined to keep its magical secrets safe. After all, this is their hometown and they're not going to let it be trampled through by tourists like some kind of magical Disneyland.
Quote #9
So they drove in silence to get Adam's things, and when they left the trailer park for the last time, his mother watching from behind the kitchen window, Adam didn't look back. (38.44)
And so it ends like this. Adam knows that once he leaves his parents' trailer, he can never come back. They're not exactly the kind of parents who will welcome him home with open arms.
Quote #10
Adam, with probable help from Ronan, moved from Monmouth Manufacturing to a room belonging to St. Agnes Church, a subtle distance that affected both boys in different ways. (48.1)
Gansey would have been happy to let Adam stay at his posh apartment rent-free, but that was never a real possibility. Adam wouldn't feel like he had his own home if he just mooched off of his best friends.