Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All thos...
Trains are great dirty smoky things, said Will. You won't like it. Tessa was unmoved. I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I? I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn'...
I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own....
Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either.Just as I am not human, and not demon either, Tessa said softly.His...
There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
You bit de Quincey, he said. You fool. He's a vampire. You know what it means to bite a vampire. I had no choice, said Will. He was choking me.I know, Jem said. But really, Will. Again?
Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken before. And she woul...
Your place is with me, Jem said. It always will be.What do you mean?He flushed, the color dark against his pale skin. I mean, he said, Tessa Gray, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?Tessa sa...
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.
I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale.I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can teach each other. Find her,...
Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. You are my parabatai, he said, You said once I could ask anything of you.
Will’s voice dropped. Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.Yes, said Jem. You just make more of them than most people.I —You hurt everyone, said Jem. Everyone whose life you touch.Not you, Will whispered. I h...
But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it.
A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold out...
Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.
He dropped his voice, so low that Tessa wasn’t sure if what he said next was real or part of the dream darkness rising to claim her, though shefought against it.I’ve never minded it, he went on. Being...
He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's...
When Will truly wants something, said Jem, quietly, when he feels something — he can break your heart.
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