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...
I am not the one of us who has no heart.
Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.
They’re not hideous, said Tessa. Will blinked at her. What? Gideon and Gabriel, said Tessa. They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all. I spoke, said Will, in sepulchral tones, of the pitch...
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?
Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of...
Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.
He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.
And to the devil with it if she is! said the Consul. One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, , be our priority.She is priority! Will shouted.
When Will truly wants something, said Jem, quietly, when he feels something — he can break your heart.
Do you think Charlotte will let me handle the investigation?Do think you can be trusted in Downworld? The gaming hells, the dens of magical vice, the women of loose morals... Will smiled the way Luci...
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 the net drawing tight around the characters...
Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.
Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. You are my parabatai, he said, You said once I could ask anything of you.
Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the...
Will: Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ...Jem: Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate,...
I thought... that we could at least talk about books.
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.