I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.

Has no one respect for the classics these days?

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

What did Magnus mean by asking you if I knew you were in love with Tessa?

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