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...
It's too late, she said.Don't say that. His voice was half a whisper. I love you, Tessa. I love you.
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.
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...
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...
Hell, he said. Just when it was getting interesting, too. And he leaped into the water after his friend.
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path a...
Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks? They ate it too, Will reminisced. Bloodthirsty little beast...
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...
I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment...
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.
She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel sl...
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.