"Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.

His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an ice-covered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of ...
~ Maggie Stiefvater ~











His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle o...
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