There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Tess?” A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.

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...

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...

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,” said Jem under...

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...

But I like itBecause it is bitter,And because it is my heart.

Anyone that looked like that wouldn’t need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

I think I may be in love with you, Sophie,” said Will. “Marriage could be in the cards.

I promise to charm the dickens out of him,’ said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. ‘I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying...

The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great...

There’s nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then...

I am nothing if not gracious,” Will said. His eyes searched Jem’s face, that face as familiar to him as his own. “And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

I don’t let it color my judgment.

What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.

I am brave,” Will said…”Yes, you are,” Magnus said, and kissed him. It wasn’t the most dramatic kiss, but Will failed his free arm as if a bee had landed on him; Magnus had to...

when he feels something — he can break your heart.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Wherever we are, we are as one

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...

I’ve mastered many things in my life. Navigating the strets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms…

–Entonces estás muriendo por amor, –dijo Will finalmente, su voz sonaba estrangulada a sus propios oídos. –Muriendo un poco más rápido por amor. Y hay cosas peores por las que morir.

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. “Take it.”Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem’s face. A dozen awful things he...

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

In the back.

I thought… that we could at least talk about books.

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

I’m afraid to answer that. I’ve heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

James Carstairs! Jem! Where are you, you disloyal bastard?

Because women never say what they think.

Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?” Will demanded with mock horror. “Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be.” He banged on the...

Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes. If Will …

Jem is my greatest sin.

I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?

Those are the words of the oath. ‘Untilaught but death part thee and me.’ Someday, Will, I will go where none canfollow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later.

It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.

His blue eyes were very dark…Will’s were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night…

Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the...

Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn’t as if Magnus seemed to be paying attention to what Will...

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

Probably all poisoned by parsnips,” said Will.

He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he’d set the violin back...

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

Will: “You are not really dying, are you?” Jem: “So they tell me.” Will: “I am sorry.” Jem: “No. Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. Say you’ll train with me.” Will: “I’ll...

Algunas veces uno tiene que elegir entre ser amable y honorable, –dijo. –A veces no se puede ser las dos.

Will: ‘Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don’t we, James? I doubt I’d have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?’Jem: ‘Yang guizi...

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 these past five years.