She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other.

Tell you what.' Alec reached for a second seraph blade. 'We live through this, and I promise I'll introduce you to my whole family.' Magnus raised his hands, his fingers shining with individual azure flames. They lit his grin with a fiery blue glow. 'It's a deal.

If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"