Spoon! James said, running at his uncle Gabriel and jabbing him in the thigh. Gabriel mussed the boy’s hair affectionately.You’re such a good boy, he said. I often wonder how you could possibly be Wil...
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...
Dear me, said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. Is it because I'm better-looking than you?
Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.
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...
Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.
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...
Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?