The Name of This Book Is Secret (Secret, #1)

by Pseudonymous Bosch

Which was so unfunny it wasn’t funny.

The gardener was exactly who he said was.

there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: A pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it’s changing and whether you want it to.