It's too late, she said.Don't say that. His voice was half a whisper. I love you, Tessa. I love you.
We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not comp...
Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name, Will said. You can have mine.Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. Your name?Will took a step toward her...
James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard?
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon’s father we’re discussing.We’re not just discussing him; we’re chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden becaus...
Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.
Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. 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...
I adore Wilkie Collins, Tessa cried. Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White …Are you laughing at me?Not at you, said Will, grinning, more because of you. I’ve never seen anyone get soexcited over books b...
Hell, he said. Just when it was getting interesting, too. And he leaped into the water after his friend.
Will began to straighten up, to turn away from the bed. And as he did, he felt something wrap tightly around his wrist. He glanced down and saw Jem’s hand braceleting his own. For a moment he was too...
This about Tessa. I knew it was. Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. Not just her.But you love her.Will stared at him. Of course I do, he said finally. I had come to think i...
Indeed. Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?Duck pies in the park, sai...
Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice. He flipped the book open to the front page, where the title was printed in ornate script. Across from it was a long dedication, the in...
By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing, said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and clo...
Will! Charlotte threw up her hands. Why didn't you say so?You know, the books on demon pox are in the library, Will said with an injured tone. I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them
Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father, Will said. That for my father, there was only ever one woman he loved, and it was her for him, or nothing. You are that for me. I love you, and I wil...
In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.
I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?
I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.