You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you, he went on. I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how m...
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...
But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it.
Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name, Will said. You can have mine.Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. Your name?Will took a step toward her...
You haven't broken his heart yet, have you?No, Tessa said. I haven't broken his heart at all.
Wo wei ni xie de, he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He had told her many violinists used a shoulder rest, but he did not: there was a slight mark on the...
I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment...
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.
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...
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...
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 gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you? he said. Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say. Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the...
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...
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...
I adore Wilkie Collins, Tessa cried. Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White …Are you laughing at me?Not at you, said Will, grinning, more because of you. I’ve never seen anyone get soexcited over books b...
I am Tessa Gray, she said in a low, clear voice. And I believe in the importance of stories.
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...
I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.
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,...
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