You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.

Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him

Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.

Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.