I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.

Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.

To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been...

Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.

All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone...

Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for years expecting to find him...

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. “A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth.””But you are not a lady, Jessamine—,”...

Are you ready?”She nodded, and he raised his hand to knock on the door.

No, i mean enterprising.” said Will. “When I mean morally deficient, I say,`Now, that is something i would have done´

Like what you see?

Sophie did this?” He said, not for the first time. They were standing at the foot of Jessamine’s bed. She lay flung upon it, her chest rising and falling slowly like the famous Sleeping Beauty...

She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

Doesn’t like you? She hates you!

Trains are great dirty smoky things,” said Will. “You won’t like it.” Tessa was unmoved. “I won’t know if I like it until I try it, will I?” “I’ve never swum naked in the Thames...

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

Will’s face turned grave. “Be careful with it, though. It’s six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it is punishable by death under the Law.”Tessa thrust the book...

He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back.

Life was an uncertain thing.

Achilles was murdered with a poisonedarrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes; the Angel knows why anyone would want to be one.

You can’t mean there’s truly a Six-Fingered Nigel?

James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over...

Don’t waste that on me, Tess.

…In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in...

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?

For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.

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 his shirt, and hauled him inside.

When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her.

I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale.I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can...

He’s very annoying.

Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are...

So you’re a Shadowhunter,’ Nate said. ‘De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.”Was that before or after he tried to eat you?’ Will inquired.

I don’t know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don’t think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.

Sometimes,” said Will, “they’re even supposed to blow up.

He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. “I do not know who to be without him.

You would make a very ugly woman””I would not. I would be stunning

Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He’d never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem’s expansive...

Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

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.

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

Do reasons matter when there’s nothing that can be done to change things.

Was that Will?” she said finally.Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. “Perhaps he’s been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton,” he suggested. “It seems possible…”For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.

We should go back inside,” she said, in a half whisper. She did not want to go back inside. She wanted to stay here, with Will achingly close, almost leaning into her. She could feel...

My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven.

I suppose you are not.

So you are dying for love, then,” Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears. ‘Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.

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 who live...

She ought to be thrilled.