Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

Some Laws were meant to be broken.

Well, then, 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.

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream. "GO AWAY!" Simon looked sideways at Jace. "I think he means it." Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

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

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.