How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
This was why Blue and Neeve were here. Every year, Maura sat on the wall, knees pulled up to her chin, staring at nothing, and recited names to Blue. To Blue, the churchyard remained empty, but to Maura, it was full of the dead. Not the currently dead, but the spirits of those who would die in the next twelve months. (1.46)
Figuring out who's going to die in the next year is a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. For some reason, Maura's clients often want to know if they're going to die soon. How morbid.
Quote #2
That was what had brought Gansey to Henrietta in the first place: months of dowsing and research. Later, he'd tried to dowse the line more precisely with Adam. They'd circled the town with a willow divining rod and an electromagnetic-frequency reader, swapping the instruments between the two of them. (7.14)
Gansey didn't just end up in Henrietta because he wanted to go to the prestigious Aglionby Academy—he went there because the place is steeped in magic, and Gansey is the kind of person who's always looking for signs of the supernatural.
Quote #3
"Who's there?" asked Neeve.
But it was not Neeve's voice. It was something deeper and farther away.
A nasty little shiver ran up Blue's arms. Somewhere in the tree above, a bird hissed. At least Blue thought it was a bird. (17.14-16)
As anyone who has ever watched a horror movie knows, finding out that a family member is possessed by a spirit is a cue to run away immediately. Even Blue, who has been raised around psychics, knows that this is a bad sign.
Quote #4
"I don't understand," Blue said. Something in her ached though, like she did understand, but she couldn't put words to it, wrap her thoughts around it. She felt like she was part of a dream this place was happening, or it was part of a dream of hers. (23.127)
Cabeswater is a pretty wild place. Fish appear out of nowhere (according to Gansey's whims), there's a tree that hands out crazy visions like Halloween candy, and the forest speaks in Latin. There's definitely magic in the air.
Quote #5
It had seemed so very real. Was this the future? Was this an alternate future? Was this just a waking dream? She couldn't imagine falling in love with Gansey, of all people, but in that vision it had seemed not just plausible, but indisputable. (23.154)
Is Blue's vision in which she kisses Gansey really a glimpse into the future? It would take some kind of magic to make her fall in love with him… especially after their tiff over money at Nino's.
Quote #6
Adam's heart was still a flighty thing. He had to confess to himself that until now he probably had never really believed Gansey's supernatural explanation for the ley line, not in a way that he'd really internalized. Now it was real. Magic existed, and Adam didn't know how much that changed the world. (25.54)
Hunting for the ley lines isn't a game anymore. Adam knows that magic and the supernatural exist now, and he has to reconfigure his ideas of how the world works—it's not so simple anymore.
Quote #7
Had they always been trying to speak to them? There was no way of knowing, either, if the trees were good or bad, if they loved or hated humans, if they had principles or compassion. They were like aliens, Gansey thought. Aliens that we have treated very badly for a very long time. If I were a tree I would have no reason to love a human. (26.46)
Are all trees capable of talking, or is it something that only the Cabeswater trees can do? Either way, Gansey can't imagine that trees—magical or not—like humans that much. They probably won't tell him anything about Glendower.
Quote #8
"I live with this, though. I mean, my mother is a psychic. All her friends are psychics. This is—well, it's not like it's normal. But it's how I always thought it would feel to be them. You know, to see things that other people don't." (28.35)
Blue is the only one of Gansey's friend who doesn't seem all that weirded out by Cabeswater. That's not because she has a strong stomach, but rather because she's always around weird things. Do you think she'd spend all night at an abandoned church every St. Mark's Eve if she didn't believe in the supernatural?
Quote #9
Gansey's thumb worried over his bottom lip. He asked Adam," What's going on?"
Adam replied, "We're being haunted." (29.75-76)
Like Casper, Noah's actually a pretty friendly ghost to be haunted by. As far as supernatural phenomena go, Noah's haunting of his friends is probably the least threatening thing ever.
Quote #10
Suddenly, the trees began to hiss as if a breeze was coming through them, though no wind touched Blue's skin. Adam's and Ronan's faces wore matching shocked expressions, and a moment later, Blue realized that it was not hissing: It was voices. The trees were speaking, and now she could hear them, too.
"Take cover!" Ronan shouted. (46.22-23)
This is no usual earthquake. When the earth starts to shake and the trees start to whisper, it's a dead giveaway that something big is coming—something magical. And it's probably a good idea to duck and cover.