How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Maybe Blue was having a bit of an identity crisis. Some days it did seem a little unfair that all of the wonder and power that surrounded her family was passed to Blue in the form of paperwork.
At least I can still be a part of it, Blue thought grimly, although she felt about as included as a seeing eye dog. (1.59-60)
The problem with living in a house full of real live psychics is that you feel inferior if you can't commune with the dead or tell the future. That's Blue's problem. Even though her aunts and mom tell her that she's useful because she makes their powers stronger, she still feels like she missed out on the psychic gene.
Quote #2
Gansey was well aware that there was nothing little Henrietta, Virginia, preferred over seeing humiliating things happen to Aglionby boys, unless it was seeing humiliating things happen to their families. (2.8)
Aglionby boys may be considered snooty jerks, but the people in Henrietta who despise them act like jerks, too. What's wrong with stopping to see if someone needs help when their car has broken down on the side of the road?
Quote #3
Adam felt the familiar pang. Not jealousy, just wanting. One day he'd have enough money to have a place like this. A place that looked on the outside like Adam looked on the inside. (4.20)
Adam doesn't hate Gansey for having a lot more money than he does, but that doesn't stop him from wanting what his friend has. After all, when you have to work three jobs just to be able to afford school tuition, you're bound to look at your rich classmates with some resentment.
Quote #4
The mere mention of Ronan Lynch's name had scraped something raw inside Whelk. Because it was never Ronan by himself, it was Ronan as part of the inseparable threesome: Ronan Lynch, Richard Gansey, and Adam Parrish. All of the boys in his class were affluent, confident, arrogant, but the three of them, more than anyone else, reminded him of what he'd lost. (5.8)
Doesn't Whelk feel like a bit of a loser feeling jealous of all his much younger students? It's obviously hard for him to give up his former glory—even if his former glory just involved living off of his dad's wealth.
Quote #5
He cast a quick, uneasy glance from the secretary to Whelk, and Whelk knew he was thinking about how much Whelk's father had been worth, once upon a time, and how little he was worth now, long after the trials had left the front pages of the newspapers. All the junior faculty and the admin staff hated the Aglionby boys, hated them for what they had and what they stood for, and Whelk knew they were all secretly pleased that he had fallen down among their ranks. (5.28)
Everyone in Henrietta hates the Aglionby boys for being so rich… everyone. Even the teachers talk about them behind their backs and get excited when someone loses all their wealth. Talk about a serious case of schadenfreude.
Quote #6
While he fumbled there, a shaved-head boy at the next register moved swiftly through, swiping a credit card and collecting his things in only a few seconds.
Even the way the other boy had moved, Adam recalled, had struck him: confident and careless, shoulders rolled back, chin tilted, an emperor's son. As the cashier swiped Adam's card again, both of them pretending the machine might have misread the magnetic stripe, Adam watched the other boy go out to the curb to where a shiny black car waited. (20.28-29)
It's the simple things that Adam longs for, like the ability to pay for his groceries without even having to worry. All the other Aglionby boys take this for granted, but to Adam it speaks of unfathomable financial freedom.
Quote #7
"I spent the afternoon with the police," Gansey said. "I went out with Blue to the church-"
Now jealousy stabbed Adam, deep and unexpected, a wound that kept stinging, no less painful for him not being certain what, precisely, had inflicted it. (29.33-34)
Uh-oh… Is a girl going to get in the way of Gansey and Adam's deep friendship? Adam may not hate Gansey for his wealth, but he might just hate Gansey if he steals his girl.
Quote #8
Still, Adam didn't get out. He didn't like the agitation of his father's silhouette. But, it was unwise to loiter in the car—especially this car, an undeniably Aglionby car—flaunting his friendships. (36.8)
Robert Parrish isn't so much proud of his son for getting into a private school as he is disgusted. It's obvious that he resents his kid for having the kind of opportunities that he never had.
Quote #9
Whelk missed the good food that came with being rich.
When he'd been home from Aglionby, neither of his parents had ever cooked, but they'd hired a chef to come in every other evening to make dinner. Carrie, the chef's name had been, an effusive but intimidating woman who adored chopping things up with knives. (37.1-2)
Since losing all his wealth, Whelk isn't just jealous of the students that he teaches. He's jealous of his former self, because he once had everything—lots of money, lots of ladies, and even a personal chef. Now he's just a Latin teacher to the rich and insufferable.
Quote #10
But there also wasn't any way that he was going to let Whelk slide in and take what they'd worked so hard for. Wait! Gansey could always afford to wait. Adam couldn't. (41.38)
Adam is so not into letting someone else slide in and steal his glory. He and Whelk are kind of similar in this way: They're both in a desperate situation and feel like they need to do something… anything… to change their lives.