He looked back at her, and when she saw the look on his face, she saw his eyes at Renwick’s, when he had watched the Portal that separated him from his home shatter into a thousand irretrievable pieces. He held her gaze for a split second, then looked away from her, the muscles in his throat working.

Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see.

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.

You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it." "When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?

There are some people—people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be; its only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver.