The Raven Boys

"She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars."

"But Adam was just quiet. He wasn't lost for words; he was observing."

"They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them."

"Gansey was first into the room, and he clearly hadn't expected to find anyone there, beacuse his features hadn't been arranged at all to disguise his misery. When he saw Blue, he immediately managed to pull a cordial smile from somewhere.
Why a boy with a life as untroubled as Gansey's would have needed to learn how to build such a swift and convincing false front of happiness was beyond her."