#his second secret is adam parrish

[banana-beavers]

trans ronan lynch you are so personal to me

[galaxyspeaking]

“Adam finally sat down on one of the pews. Laying his cheek against the smooth back of it, he looked at Ronan. Strangely enough, Ronan belonged here, too, just as he had at the Barns.

This noisy, lush religion had created him just as much as his father's world of dreams; it seemed impossible for all of Ronan to exist in one person. Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all of him. The scent of Cabeswater, all trees after rain, drifted past Adam, and he realized that while he'd been looking at Ronan, Ronan had been looking at him.”

[andrea-lyn]

The Raven Cycle - Master Fic Rec Post

See under the cut for fifteen total recs, mostly Pynch. There's also 10 additional in the "Recs Less Travelled" project here.

and on the seventh day he rested by Prevalent_Masters

On the seventh day, the Lynch brothers discovered they were friends once more.

Or, the week following the (near) apocalypse.

cool of your hand, back of my neck by grandfather_clock

Adam Parrish has been dumped for the second time ever. Ronan Lynch is a gleeful, weirdly invested observer. They drive around all night long. featuring: teenagers pretending they aren’t in love, shouting over loud music, minor arson, major arson, ronan lynch’s hand fixation, and an unfortunate amount of kiting.

getting swept away by sunmoontruth

“So. Your page. Your knight. Two different people, yes?” the psychic guesses—intuits. She points to each of the tarot cards: a girl with a golden cup, a boy with a golden cup. “Yes,” Gansey says. “But similar feelings,” the psychic says, mostly to herself. She opens her mouth. She closes her mouth. She instructs, “Last card.” Gansey draws. Death. Reversed. — Or a cross country road-trip, developing feelings, and the end of the world

god only knows (what i'd be without you) by RhymeReason

[Part of Gansey was starting to accept that two of his best friends were most likely dead.]

Or: gansey finds adam and ronan :)

hold me tight, fear me not by audikatia for Northisnotup

When Adam stepped around, he found himself suddenly in an emerald glen of moss-covered trees. More blue roses scattered over the green ground like raindrops or tears.

And there, in the center, was a man pinned to a tree with an arrow through his heart. :: Tam Lin AU

i should have loved a thunderbird instead by ssstrychnine

persephone leaves adam three things: her tarot cards, her voice, and a phone from 2003.

I Worship You, Your Fingers Snag My Soul by sherasaidgaywrites

He breathed into Adam’s mouth, his voice different, somehow; filled with meaning: “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” He did his smoker’s breath, his fingertips a whisper on nerves. “His name was Adam.” And, oh,��that was so fitting. What was Adam if not a man built from the dust? - Ronan does some contemplation during mass and then comes home to his second object of worship. He likens Adam unto God’s creations, Adam likens him unto God.

if, if, if by writerforlife

Declan decides it’s about time he and Adam Parrish have a chat.

like a secret (like an oath) by demigodbeautiies

“You know Richard Gansey well enough to be invited to his wedding,” Adam says, and it isn’t quite a question. Then he shakes his head, like he’s clearing it of a much bigger piece of debris, and says, “You’re the best man at his wedding?” - Pynch Fake Dating AU

Night Owls by aceofreaders (Kickasscookieeater)

Adam Parrish has worked at The Night Owl since the end of his college freshman year. It's named so because it's open late, which suits Adam just fine because no one ever comes in during those last hours before 12am.

Except, then someone does.

A foul mouthed, viciously handsome someone, who brings a slow rolling storm of change into Adam's steady life. And when he does, Adam won't be able to lie anymore.

since you've been home, see what you have become by Mici (noharlembeat)

Adam goes touring colleges, and Ronan comes along. And Opal, well. She stays with Declan.

Someone Worth Knowing by SprigsofViolets

Alex Claremont-Diaz and Adam Parrish meet on their first day at NYU. They do not hit it off—cue the academic rivalry. They hate each other until they learn to understand each other.

(I can’t tell you how many times I’ve re-read this one, esp as it hits two of my fave canons in all the right places)

There's No Place Like My Room by Lil_Redhead

Sometimes endings are endings, but sometimes they’re just middles and the real ending is very, very far away.

Or, the days between the last chapters and the epilogue of Greywaren

Time Isn’t Real (but you’re a constant) by SpiritsFlame

“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” - Albert Einstein. Adam wakes up in the future, learns a few things about himself, about time, and about his priorities. But mostly he just wishes that Time was doing it’s job better.

(you told me) this is right where it begins by starsandgutters

The aftermath of dealing with the demon leaves behind a wake of emotional debris they were not – couldn’t have been – fully prepared to tackle. They all have a lot on their plate: assessing the damage, picking up the broken pieces, allowing the wounds to scar over. And, of course, there’s the matter of Adam-and-Ronan. (Or: falling in love doesn’t magically fix all problems, but maybe that’s alright.)

And a blanket rec for pretty much anything shinealightonme has written for the fandom.

[adamprrishcycle]

rereading trb and just got to the bit where adam sent blue flowers and ronan calls fox way a “castration palace.”

and then: “ronan spit on the ground beside the bmw ‘I didn’t even realize midget was the adam parrish type’”

it’s okay ronan he likes men over six feet too just like the rest of us bisexuals

i need ten times more ronan being jealous of bluesey than there is

“Ronan’s second secret was Adam Parrish” ok suuuure, well kept secret. Jealous Ronan is very very very (very very VERY) important to me. It’s when his dog characteristics come out most strongly. Loyal dog who gets vicious to protect what’s his

Thank you for sending me an ask !!!

[ibabyimpala]

Happy Maybe I dreamt you , His second secret was Adam Parrish month.

[moondustinfj]

Woke up and chose violance

[massivechaoticenergy]

doing a re-read of the raven cycle and i have to say i find the use of the different character pov chapters fascinating, mainly in terms of ronan and his relationship to the gangsey.

like, in the raven boys, there’s no ronan chapters — we have to really depend on gansey (and sometimes adam) to tell us what ronan’s all about. it’s sort of a testament to how well they know each other. gansey knows ronan well enough to explain his actions and his way of thinking as well as slipping in glimpses of the ronan he used to know — which then sets up the dream thieves and us actually getting to see inside ronan’s head.

the dream thieves is where ronan finally has the opportunity to explain his actions and thoughts in his own pov, mainly because something so crazy is revealed to us on the last page of the raven boys. we dive in and learn about how ronan thinks and about his secrets and his past and “ronan’s second secret was adam parrish.”

and then, in blue lily, lily blue, we again have no ronan chapters. but this time, post second secret reveal, we have adam understanding and explaining ronan’s actions and thoughts. it shows just how much their relationship has deepened since the raven boys. this time we don’t just have gansey, someone who knew him before, to rely on, but also adam, someone who knows him after. even blue is starting to understand the functionality of ronan.

then it all comes to a head in the raven king: we have ronan chapters again because everyone has finally started to understand him fully. we get to see both how he is perceived and how he thinks. adam and gansey and blue all know him better — they’ve bonded and changed.

i don’t know if this exactly makes sense, i have a visual motor deficit so it’s much easier for me to put things to words out loud rather than written/typed, but i just wanted to put this out there.

[halleyys-comet]

okay okay From Eden by Hozier is a pynch song.

If this isn’t Ronan’s pov about Adam Parrish I don’t know what else it is.

PYNCH! Ronan’s second secret was Adam Parrish! “Ronan leaning back against his seat and closing his eyes and sending up a simple, inexplicable prayer to god: please”

I can’t stop thinking about them now.

[stillfrownyclownlol]

FROWNY I FINISHED IT.

I don’t even have the words to describe how shocked I am. I don’t even know what to write because the ending genuinely shocked me and it’s not even DONE.

ADAM. PERSEPHONE. THE LEY LINE??? CABESWATER???? RONAN??? THE NIGHT HORRORS??? KAVINSKY??? OH MY GOD MATTHEW?? THER MUM??????? HOLY SHIT.

Okay. Let’s seee if I can get my thoughts to work.

Adam and Persephone are a duo I didn’t see coming but I actually like it a lot. They both give off melancholic vibes you know? I think they understand each other, in some way. The way to redirect the ley line was AMAZING? And Adam finally coming to terms with Cabeswater? He’s the magician?? Honestly love him so much!

Ronan. RONAN. Oh my god Ronan. I don’t even know what to say. He’s gay? I’m pretty sure he’s gay. There’s just so much to say about him really. The way him and Kavinsky have the same dream place — the way he talked to the trees? The way he saw Adam? The way Adam could see him too? The way he just KNEW? The lightning? The rock? ADAM OMG. Anway. Ronan’s night horror was a genuine shock. The way it symbolised his hatred for himself? And once he accepted himself could he finally control his nightmares? UGH. THE WAY HE DREAMT HIS DAD?? THE WAY HE LEARNED WHAT HIS DAD HAD WANTED HIM TO? THE LANGUAGE OF THE TREES??? The battle between Kevinsky’s fire dragon and Ronan’s albino terror? Honestly so cool. Matthew? Like MATTHEW? During the first book I thought the Lynch brothers all despised each other but it’s more like Declan and Ronan hating each other and only doing things for Matthew’s sake. RONAN you are an amazing big brother omg.

Their mum??? She’s back??? The will ???? I’m so shocked I can’t even believe it. I knew they’d do that — of course she’d come back — but still. Also. EXCUSE ME RONAN LYNCH BUT WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR SECOND SECRET IS ADAM PARRISH? HELLO??? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??? 🤨🤨🤨

I had to stare at the wall for a good minute because the ending genuinely shocked me. Like. MAURA. WHAT. THE. FUCK. It is one in the morning and I’m not even tired I’m probably gonna start the third book now oh my lord 😭

I’m so happy you introduced this series to me Frowny because now I don’t know what I would be doing right now?? How could I NOT love these guys???? AHHHHHHHHHH.

ALSO WHEN YOU SAID ADAM WOULD GET LOVE SOON I HOPE IT HAPPENS!! I NEED HIM TO BE LOVED.

You're tearing through these omg

YEAHHHH I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN...THE ENDING LEFT ME "...what the HELL-" skdhkajdd and you still have two more books left...🫠🫠🫠

Akdbiwhdosb I love their mentor-student relationship sm they break my heart every time </3

I don't think it's a spoiler but I think in the spin off he does explicitly call himself gay lol. I LOOOOOVE THE FIGHT WITH THE DRAGON AND THE NIGHT CREATURE IT WAS SICK AF. and I love Matthew we'll see him more later <3 he's such a silly guy...

HEHE IDK WHAT DO YOU THINK IT MEANS?? ✨️ (I can't wait for that scene kagdjshdj)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue was CRAZY bro idk what to tell you except you're in for a ride, one time I stayed up till 6am reading 😭

Thank you to my bestie for getting me to read it hihi <3 the raven cycle goes on forever...one day, you'll also recommend it to someone ✨️

And I promise you, Adam will be loved (picks him up) never forget you have been loved :")

[alexiaugustin]

when the dream thieves is the book where adam is the most consistently miserable and just goes from worrying about money and how the sacrifice he made is going to influence his life and take away from his autonomy to processing n dealing with his trauma to fighting with blue to suffering through an episode of transient global amnesia and forgetting gansey’s number thus not being able to reach out for help for hours to being broken up with etc etc but the dream thieves is also the book that starts off with a vague description of ronan’s second secret and closes with the line “ronan’s second secret was adam parrish”. so by the end of the book you know that through all of this misery there has always been someone who deeply cared about adam and loved him and ofc ronan was not the only person!.. but there’s still something so special and poetic about the implications of all this especially because they don’t even interact much on page in this book

[jhsjykwpdw]

angel baby by troye sivan is a pynch song: a comprehensive study

Ronan wrapped his arms around Adam, pinning Adam’s upper arms against him. He was contained. “Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit,” Ronan said into Adam’s hearing ear, and Adam’s body sagged against Ronan, chest heaving. His hands still jerked and strained to violence. He gasped, “You asshole,” but Ronan could hear how near tears he was.

Noah cackled and showed them the cassette. It boasted a handmade label marked with Ronan’s handwriting: PARRISH’S HONDAYOTA ALONE TIME. The other side was A SHITBOX SING-ALONG.

Adam had come for him. All this way. He had not given up. He had risked everything.

The choice was death or hurting Adam, which wasn’t much of a choice at all.

For that first summer, the Barns was paradise to Ronan Lynch and Adam Parrish.

For a long time, it was paradise, and the dreaming was good.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that Ronan was looking at him, as he had been looking at him for months. Adam looked back, as he had been looking back for months. 

His mouth remembered Ronan Lynch’s. What was he doing? Ronan was not something to be played with. He didn’t think he was playing.

It was Ronan, unperformed. No. Ronan, unprotected. This tone reminded Adam of that unshielded smile from before. Don’t play, he told himself. This is not a game. But it didn’t feel like a game, if he was being honest. 

What do you want, Adam? To feel awake when my eyes are open.

Instead, though, he just stood there and watched it approach. Even at the last minute, as he heard the rain pounding the grass flat, he just stood there. He closed his eyes and let the storm soak him. That was this kiss.

The proper truth struck Ronan: The plants had not saved their lives. Adam Parrish had saved their lives.

His head rested miserably on Ronan’s shoulder, everything shaking, standing only because Ronan did not allow him to sink.

Adam could not decide if this was the worst thing that had happened to him, or if it felt that way because he had been so recently and senselessly happy that the comparison was making it so.

Ronan felt that he had caught happiness without meaning to. He could do anything.

He just lived in the moment with Ronan instead.

And that was before Ronan even got to worrying if Adam made it to the afterlife at all, with his agnostic tendencies.

Ronan hadn’t thought much about the future.

Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinterest practiced but incomplete.

Adam had recently realized Ronan was a weakness to his ambition, since it was harder to work with two moving pieces rather than one, but he couldn’t talk himself out of it. He tried each night he was alone in the apartment over St. Agnes, and he failed every time he saw Ronan again.

They sprawled on the living room sofa and Adam studied the tattoo that covered Ronan’s back: all the sharp edges that hooked wondrously and fearfully into each other. “Unguibus et rostro,” Adam said.

Ronan crossed his arms to wait, just looking. At Adam’s fine cheekbones, his furrowed fair eyebrows, his beautiful hands, everything washed out by the furious light. He had memorized the shape of Adam’s hands in particular: the way his thumb jutted awkwardly, boyishly; the roads of the prominent veins; the large knuckles that punctuated his long fingers. In dreams Ronan put them to his mouth.

Adam, as a secretive creature, understood secrets.

Ronan’s second secret was Adam Parrish.

Adam, a secretive animal, was acutely tuned to other people’s secrets.

Gansey met her eyes, and then the Dog’s, in the rearview mirror. "Adam keeps his secrets pretty close."

Adam would have never pried — secrets were secrets — but he couldn’t deny that he’d been curious.

But Adam knew everything, both because he’d been there when certain things had gone down, and because Ronan shared everything with him.

Every minute that the Barns had been his all of the time he’d spent here alone or with Adam, dreaming and scheming. Home, home, home. 

He was so raw and electric that it was hard to believe that he was awake. Normally it took sleep to strip him to this naked energy. But this was not a dream. This was his life, his home, his night.

Seeing the two pairs tumbled together, a nameless feeling had suddenly overwhelmed Ronan. It was about Adam’s gloves here, but it “was also Adam’s jacket tossed on a dining room chair, his soda can forgotten on the foyer table, him somewhere tossed with equal comfort in the Barns, his presence commonplace enough that he was not having to perform or engage with Ronan at all times. He was not dating Ronan; he was living in Ronan’s life with him.

This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted. He knew Adam had figured out how he felt. But he didn’t know if he could step off this knife-slender path without destroying what he had.

Ronan sometimes dreamt of Adam too, the latter boy sullen and elegant and fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan’s clumsy attempts to communicate.

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of the ink with his finger. He said, “Scio quid hoc est.” As he traced it father and father down on the bare skin of Ronan’s back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely. 

His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he’d let them overflow and now there wasn’t a damn place in the ocean that wouldn’t catch fire if he dropped a match. 

[ravenssunshine]

the location thing is really cool! it must be so nice to know exactly what they’re talking about. i’m a midwesterner so my main frame of reference for landscapes are sprawling cornfields. i try my best.

speaking of ronan and his character speaking to us. how did you feel reading his second secret was adam parrish at the ripe age of 13. did it destroy you as well

OH IT SURE DID!!!!!!! did you see my post from a few weeks ago where i was like “feeling very combined both objects of his worship into one downtown block, the ocean burned, he was never sleeping again”. those sentences are constnslty in my head i didn’t have to look them up i just think sbout them all the time forever

[mychemicalrachel]

AO3 First Lines Tag Game

Hi thanks so much @singersargentboi for tagging me!! 🥰🥰

Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

Dizzy [Ronan/Kavinsky, Adam/Kavinsky, Ronan/Adam/Kavinsky]

The car appeared sixteen days early.

It was parked out front with an ostentatious blue bow; a blinding white Mitsubishi that looked every inch the Raven Boy that Joseph Kavinsky had never felt.

I'm Filth, I'm Dirt (I'm Yours) [Ronan/Kavinsky]

Stumbling across the picture was an accident.

Semi-Charmed Life [Ronan/Adam]

Ronan had a plan.

It wasn’t an itinerary, he told himself; it was a list of activities scrawled neatly on a sheet of lined paper, complete with the times at which each thing would most conveniently be done. A list, a plan. A schedule, maybe. Not a fucking itinerary.

Just The Way I'm Not [Ronan/Adam]

Ronan hated the subway. He hated the city and he hated the crowds within it and he hated rats and he hated public transportation. Right now, the thing he hated most was his car’s broken transmission, the catlyst which forced him to ride on the fucking crowded subway where he had to deal with both people and rats.

P(r)etty Crimes [Declan/Adam]

There were a lot of different kinds of anger. Simmering, boiling, blistering fury that festered until it had no choice but to bubble over, or the kind that struck fast and burned quick. Adam was intimately familiar with the different forms that anger could take.

My Friend From Harvard [Ronan/Adam]

Gansey loved to talk about Blue. From the moment he met her, he swore it was love at first sight– even though she called him a douchebag and flipped him off. Richard Campbell Gansey III was as stubborn as he was oblivious and a little misunderstanding wasn’t enough to deter him. Blue was, as Gansey described, the woman of his dreams; intelligent and pretty and remarkable and talented and just as stubborn as he was. Every breath not used talking about Blue was spent talking about Parrish, My Friend From Harvard.

Greatest Hits [Ronan/Adam, Ronan/Kavinsky]

Monmouth Manufacturing was never quiet. Even in the darkness that fell with the night, the walls seemed to speak, murmurs and whispers of secrets and dreams. On this particular night, they screamed.

A Series of Unfortunate Events [Adam/Kavinsky]

Henrietta didn’t have an autumn. There were the burning days of a seemingly endless summer and then, abrupt and harsh and frigid, winter fell like a bomb. Even though it was only mid-October, there was a chill in the air that crept beneath Adam’s collar no matter how tight he pulled his jacket around himself.

Not Death, But His Brother... [Ronan/Adam]

Ronan had never seen such stillness.

He was a ghost, floating along in the wind. A paper bag tugged forward by the breeze. A shell of a boy with nothing left inside.

I Know She Won't Give In (I Know That I Will) [Jordan/Declan]

His entire body ached.

It was rubber bands– strings of fate, of fortune– pulled taut, centered low in his gut and reaching out into his extremities. It was the curl in his fingers and toes, the tension held in his every muscle, quivering and quaking with anticipation.

It was a good kind of ache.

Tagging some mutuals I know have at least 10 fics! (If you wanna be tagged in future stuff, or don't want to be tagged, let me know!!) @iammistressofmyfate @your-void-senpai @kelliealtogether @zephfair @second-sister

[percervall]

Hi Mar! We’ve talked a lot about reading and so I wanted to know what your favourite tropes are, and an example of a book or a fic which does that trope really well! 💛

Thanks babe! I love talking about books, although tropes always trip me up somehow. According to the internet, these are some of the most common ones in romance novels and I have been reading a lot of those lately (trying to make up for lost time apparently, but that's a conversation for a different day)

Please check the content warnings before reading (had to include a read more because this list got a lot longer than I anticipated)

Friends to lovers - Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams. I absolutely adore her series and this was such a lovely take on the friends to lovers trope.

Enemies to lovers - I'd say Triple-Duty Bodyguards by Lily Gold fits this trope. I loved the inclusion of struggling with PTSD and the impact of that on a relationship. (there's a reason for the triple in the title, please check content warnings) Also think The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon had an interesting take on this. Oh! And From Bad To Cursed by Lana Harper is another great portrayal of this trope. Guess I love me a good enemies to lovers huh.

Secret identity/billionaire/royal - Her Titans by Genevieve Jaspers. For the love of God, heed the content warnings. She accidentally hooks up with a member of one of the biggest gangs (3-piece-suit, money out the wazoo type of gang. I think they dealt in real estate?) in Ironhaven, but someone's out to get her. Oh boy, this was spi-cy

Grumpy/sunshine - This is probably one of my favourite tropes, and the best portrayal I've read was in Everything For You by Chloe Liese, which is also a queer sports romance

Stuck together - Three Swedish Mountain Men by Lily Gold. They rescue her when she's skidded off the road in Middle Of Nowhere Sweden and then they all get snowed in. Only one way this can end.

Best friend’s brother/sister - I loved the brother's best friend angle in Hero by Jolie Vines (also some of the hottest spice) where he saves her from an evil uncle. With a chopper. He is also ex-military so, you know, there's that.

Second chance - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams or The Winter Of Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss also has a lovely spin on this (the book club in that book holds my entire heart). Another good option would be Seven Days in June by Tia Williams, absolutely adored the backstories of these characters.

Fake relationship - Isn't It Bromantic? by Lyssa Kay Adams does this really well (although the conflict resolution felt rushed)

Holiday romances - I am a sucker for Christmas-themed romance novels. I treat myself to a couple of new ones every year. My favourite ones have to be 12 Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss (which also fits the friends to lovers trope), Duke, Actually and So This Is Christmas by Jenny Holiday, and The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish (this one left me in absolute tears which I did not see coming)

did I really expose my entire e-reader history in this list? Uh, yes I did. Oops. I don't know what to tell you, the inspiration for my smutty fics had to come from somewhere and if you feel the need to judge me, please do so elsewhere. We do not yuck other people's yums on my page

[evenstarfalls]

Think very carefully about how who you vote for.

What, are you gonna vote against them when Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish?

When Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan’s worship into one downtown block?

How can you not vote for Pynch when Ronan literally imagined he and Adam had been together a very long time and then Ronan died of old age or bad choices and Adam found someone else and later they all three were reunited in the afterlife, and rather than getting to spend the rest of eternity together, Adam had to split his time between Ronan and this stupid usurper he’d fallen in love with as a widower, which completely ruined the point of Heaven. And that was before Ronan even got to worrying if Adam made it to the afterlife at all, with his agnostic tendencies?

Whatever, next time you can die alone.

Book names + authors under the cut

Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji- Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

[audikatia]

ok ok i finished TDT, help

you were right!! brain = completely rewired.

pour one out for Kavinsky, who had a better death-by-dragon than any game of thrones character!!! i did not expect him to be a one-book character but rip

“many thieves. one greywaren.” I’m feral about this omg

also??? “ronan’s second secret was adam parrish.” emily i am losing my Entire Mind over this oh my GOD help

-Honestly? I didn't expect him to die either. I read his death scene over and over again like "wait... what? This can't be true." (I had a similar reaction to when Whelk died because I still maintain that was a confusing passage lol)

-MANY THIEVES, ONE GREYWAREN. God, that line haunts me

-"Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish." I WAS WAITING TO SEE WHAT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS. OMG.