"You have enough to worry over already, Gansey. And look at you, already assuming it's going to happen. Giving up. This is why I didn't tell you."

There are, of course, things Adam isn't telling him even now. But they're things Adam hasn't told anyone, and he isn't going to start now, not with Gansey, not when Gansey is already upset with him.

"There's a way out. There's a way to keep it from happening. Why become Cabeswater's magician, if not for that?" He shakes his head. "What do you think I need this power for?"