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...
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...
She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a c...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
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?
In all the world, you are what I love the most.
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.
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 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,...
Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered i...
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...
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...
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...