Dear me, said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. Is it because I'm better-looking than you?
Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where...
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...
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.
Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when
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...
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...
Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the ma...
There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.
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,...
Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.
Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for years expecting to find him the...
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.
I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady u...
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...
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.
Will’s voice dropped. Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.Yes, said Jem. You just make more of them than most people.I —You hurt everyone, said Jem. Everyone whose life you touch.Not you, Will whispered. I h...
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?
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...