How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
All night he'd sat outside the monstrously modern Church of the Holy Redeemer, recorder running, ears straining, waiting for—something. The atmosphere had been less than magical. Possibly not the best place to try to make contact with the future dead, but Gansey had maintained high hopes for the power of St. Mark's Eve. (2.17)
Doesn't Gansey have any normal teenage hobbies, like playing video games or making out with girls or something? Nah, this guy seems to spend all his time sneaking around creepy churches and using an energy reader.
Quote #2
But the fact was this: Gansey had spent the last four years working with the thinnest scraps of evidence possible and the barely heard voice was all the encouragement he needed. His eighteen months in Henrietta had used some of the sketchiest scraps of all as he searched for a ley line—a perfectly straight, supernatural energy path that connected spiritual places—and the elusive tomb he hoped lay along its path. (2.60)
Gansey's not one to give up on his quest easily. Even the mere suggestion that he may have picked up on some supernatural activity on St. Mark's Eve is enough to keep him going.
Quote #3
More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it. (8.46)
Even though Blue doesn't exactly know what Gansey's journal reveals, she can tell that he wants to find something very badly. It's obvious that all this researching and exploring is meant to lead him to his life's goal.