Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiralling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true - If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

I get the feeling you'd rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.