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...

Miss Cecily,” she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house. “Oh, dear,” said Tessa. “I have that effect on women,”...

Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.

There’s always the dinner rolls,” said Will, pointing to a covered basket. “Though I warn you, they’re as hard as stones. You could use them to kill black beetles, if any beetles bother you in...

Will stared down at his hands. “My whole life wrecked, destroyed…” “You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wrecked a life you’ve barely lived.

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....

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when–

Dw i’n dy garu di am byth,” he said. “I love you. Always.

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.

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...

Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

no.

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...

This is 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...

Do not speak to Will in that manner.

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, dear,” said Tessa.”I have that effect on women,” Will said. “I probably should have warned you before you agreed to marry me.””I can still change my mind,” Tessa said sweetly.”Don’t you dare -,” He...

I like to talk to the horses at night. They make good company. And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass.

Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It’s a line from Horace. ‘We are dust and shadows’. Appropriate, don’t you think?” Will said. “It’s not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they...

Will, meet Thammuz, a minor demon from the eighth dimension. Thammuz, meet Will, a minor Shadowhunter from-Wales, was it?””I will rip out your eyes,” hissed the creature. “I will tear the skin from your face.”...

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 witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to...

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...

Nice work in their, Herondale, setting the place on fire,” Gabriel observed. “Good thing we were there to clean up after you, or the whole plan would have gone down in flames, along with the...

I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their colour over all the passing years, and looked at Jem and then Tessa,...

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

…If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left–

It felt like being shot with an arrow, and Will jerked back. His wineglass crashed to the floor and shattered. He lurched to his feet, leaning both hands on the table. He was vaguely aware...

And no, this is not that meeting.

Jem shook his head. “You bit de Quincey” he said. “You fool. He’s a VAMPIRE””I had no choice” said Will ” He was choking me””I know” Jem said. ” But really Will, AGAIN?

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

He carried a pipe in his left hand, and as he examined Will at his leisure, he exhaled sending a cloud of sweet-smelling, cough-induced smoke. ‘Finally broke down and admitted you’re in love with me,...

Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first...

I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them....

Because the rest of us all are hideous, are we?” Jem inquired, looking amused.

Value your parabatai,” he said. “For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do what we do. Why do we fight demons? Why are they not fit custodians of...

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...

It’s too late,” she said.”Don’t say that.” His voice was half a whisper. “I love you, Tessa. I love you.

Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back.

Father . . . ,” Gabriel began. “Father is a worm.”Will gave a short laugh. He was in gear as if he had just come from the practice room, and his hair curled damply against...

Your honorable father has been impugned. Attack, attack!

–,No te importa siquiera a dónde voy? –dijo él. –,Qué si estoy yendo al Infierno? –Siempre quise ver el Infierno, –dijo Cecily con calma. –,No lo quiere todo el mundo? –La mayoría de nosotros pasamos...

It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart...

If I might ask–,” she began.Will sighed. “You know you’ll ask whether I say it’s all right or not.

Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they’d whispered, reminding each...

You cannot save every fallen bird,” said Woosley, leaning back against the wall and crossing his arms. “Even the handsome ones.” “One will do,” said Magnus, and, as Will was no longer within his sight,...

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.

Hang Mortmain,” said Will. “And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.