You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn...

May I make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and...

It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either.””Just as I am not human, and not demon either,”...

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Will-“”I love you so much, so incredibly much,” he went on, “and when you’re this close to me, I forget who you are. I forget you’re Jem’s. I’d have to be the worst sort of...

I should be very insulted if you chose another,”she said, and leaned up to kiss himagain.

You said I am a good man,” he said. “But I am not that good a man. And I am–I am catastrophically in love with you.

You’re the shape-changer aren’t you?” he said. “Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.”Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the eye. They were discordantly human eyes, ordinary...

I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he’s doddering off to the grave.

Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

He was all silver and ashes, not like Will’s strong colors of blue and black and gold.

Few can claim a single angel who guards them. But you can.

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?”Faffing about, most likely’, said Will.

Dear me,” said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you?

Pero ahora, tú eres dos, tú estás partida en dos, carne de su carne, pero corazón de mi corazón.

You see it, don’t you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me–no joy, no light, no life. If you loved me, you would let me have her. You can’t love her as I do....

You bit de Quincey,” he said. “You fool. He’s a vampire. You know what it means to bite a vampire.” “I had no choice,” said Will. “He was choking me.””I know,” Jem said. “But really,...

Oh, I can never get enough,” he said. “Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when-“The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and...

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a...

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.

Just when it was getting interesting, too,” and he leaped into the water after his friend.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

There is more to living than not dying.

Love potions? For Will ‘erondale? ‘Tain’t my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you ‘as got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.””No,” Will said, a little desperation...

If the marriage were valid, she’d be your sister-in-law.

And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for...

The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man’s flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.

I’m trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted.” Tessa glared.”If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a...

Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library… alone.” He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.

Because women never say what they think.

Never trust a duck.

As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a...

The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That’s what Will’s like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken...

Life was an uncertain thing.

Well, I don’t want you to die,” Tessa said. “I don’t know why I feel it so strongly — I’ve just met you — but I don’t want you to die.””And I trust you,” he...