You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.

We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.

I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.

There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.

When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.

She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.