Clary: "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?"

Is that what you are doing? Enduring? Surely an engaged woman should be happier.” His light eyes raked her. “A heart divided against itself cannot stand, as they say. You love them both, and it tears you apart.

What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?

Clary,” Jocelyn said. “I want you to meet Tessa Gray.

By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff,” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.

He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.