Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

Jem--Jem is all the better part of myself. I would not expect you to understand. I owe him this." "Then what am I?" Cecily asked. Will exhaled, too exasperated to check himself. "You are my weakness." "And Tessa is your heart," she said, not angrily, but thoughtfully. "Not a fool, as I told you," she added at his startled expression. I know that you love her.

She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.

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.

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

I hate to break it to you, but if he's interested in your highly personal areas, he probably isn't interested in your sisters.

You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.