They say you cannot love two people equally at once, she said. And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each...
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.
Will grinned. Some of these books are dangerous, he said. It’s wise to be careful.One must always be careful of books, said Tessa, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.I’m no...
But what of you? Gabriel said, and theywere very close now, almost touching. It isyour choice to make now, to stay or return.I will stay, Cecily said. I choose thewar.Gabriel let out the breath he had...
Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?''Faffing about, most likely', said Will.
Love potions? For Will 'erondale? 'Tain't my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you 'as got no need of love potions, and that's a fact.No, Will said, a little desperation in his voic...
Demon pox, said Sophie. Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months if he doesn't get the cure. And Mortmain said he can get it for him. The room exploded...
Oh, I can never get enough, he said. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when - The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him insi...
There is more to living than not dying.
Well, I don't want you to die, Tessa said. I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die.And I trust you, he said. I don't know why -- I've just met you --...
As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a...
I love you so much, so incredibly much, he went on, and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm th...
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
Life was an uncertain thing.
You bit de Quincey, he said. You fool. He's a vampire. You know what it means to bite a vampire. I had no choice, said Will. He was choking me.I know, Jem said. But really, Will. Again?
I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain
When Will says 'enterprising', he means 'morally deficient.' No, I mean enterprising, said Will. When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done.
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...
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...
If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa, said Will. Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or took some joy in his death, if it let me have her. And I will not be that person. I will not...
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