Top Tessa Gray Quotes

To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been named a...

Life was an uncertain thing.

Do you remember when we stood together on Blackfriars Bridge? he asked softly, and his eyes were like that night had been, all black and silver. Of course I remember. It was the moment I first knew I...

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'...

She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not mat...

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...

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...

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.

The moment the door closed behind him, Tessa was in Will's arms, her hands locked about his neck. Oh, by the Angel, she said. That was mortifying. Will slid his hands into her hair and was kissing her...

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...

But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the ma...

In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when...

I don't remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac, said Magnus. It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?

Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for years expecting to find him the...

She smiled at him. How did you know just what I’d want to see?How could I not? he said. When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind’s eye always with a book in your hand. He looke...

Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are happy in those dream...

I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give ove...

I believe everything you say, Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping down from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of a dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling...