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...
Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out.No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.
I am not the one of us who has no heart.
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...
They’re not hideous, said Tessa. Will blinked at her. What? Gideon and Gabriel, said Tessa. They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all. I spoke, said Will, in sepulchral tones, of the pitch...
I am Tessa Gray, she said in a low, clear voice. And I believe in the importance of stories.
Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of...
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...
Being a vampire is not a curse. It’s a disease, Tessa filled in. But they still can’t enter hallowed ground, then? Does that mean they’re damned? That depends on what you believe, said Jem. And wheth...
And to the devil with it if she is! said the Consul. One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, , be our priority.She is priority! Will shouted.
[Jem] 'It will help you sleep.''All I’ve been doing is sleeping!' [Tessa]'And very amusing it is to watch, said Jem. 'Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?''I do not,' she s...
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?
You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live an...
You know that feeling, she said, when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters...
Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.
Say something in Mandarin, said Tessa, with a smile.Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels andconsonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: Nihen piao liang....
Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the...