I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

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

She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Fine." Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial." Alec flushed. "If you say so," he said. "I say so," said Magnus, and he turned to follow Isabelle out of the room.