Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy #1)

by Maggie Stiefvater

You are made of dreams and this world is not for you.

Ronan hadn’t known anything about who Adam was then and, if possible, he’d known even less about who he himself was, but as they drove away from the boy with the bicycle, this was how it had begun: Ronan leaning back against his seat and closing his eyes and sending up a simple, inexplicable, desperate prayer to God: Please.

Because he was so thoroughly trained in secrets that everything was one until proven otherwise or stolen from him.

This wasn’t living, it was just giving up while still breathing.