If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened

Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.

For love is as strong as death.

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?

The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?

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

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.