Why are you such an asshat?" "An asshat?" Jace looked as if he were about to laugh.

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 from me, who will see me like that?

Will remembered the two of them, running through the dark streets of London, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, seraph blades gleaming in their hands; hours in the training room, shoving each other into mud puddles, throwing snowballs at Jessamine from behind an ice fort in the courtyard, asleep like puppies on the rug in front of the fire.

The sensation of falling was the worst part.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.