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...
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...
Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. 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...
He said.She blinked at him, a little dazed. What?A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye, he said. It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me a...
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...
Will began to straighten up, to turn away from the bed. And as he did, he felt something wrap tightly around his wrist. He glanced down and saw Jem’s hand braceleting his own. For a moment he was too...
Tessa reached to brush the damp hair from his forehead. He leaned into her touch, his eyes closing. Jem—have you ever— She hesitated. Have you ever thought of ways to prolong your life that are not a...
Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father, Will said. That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I wil...
If you do not help me, Tessa said to Jem, I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress. She fixed him with a look. Do you...
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 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...
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.
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...