Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth.But you are not a lady, Jessamine---, Charl...
Reparations, said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding.Will looked at him in puzzlement. Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is ‘gen...
He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem’s place to do those things, not his. Not his. -Will Herondale
Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground.Camille’s carpet, Magnus protested.It’s blood, said Will. She ought to be thrilled.
You have been known to call upon Brother Zachariah for a broken toe.It was turning green, said Will
You swore to stay with me, he said. When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.We are two people, said Jem. Two people with a covenant between us.Will knew he so...
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...
Life was an uncertain thing.
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...
Wherever we are, we are as one
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...
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'...
Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own....
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite
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...
I should have known what you would do, Jem said in a low voice. I always know what you will do. I should have known you would put your hands into the fire.And I should have known you would throw that...
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...
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?
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...