Now don't go wandering off, William," she said with a meaningful glance. "I don't want to lose you in the crowd." Will's jaw set. "I'm getting the oddest feeling that you're enjoying this," he said under his breath. "Nothing odd about it." Feeling unbelievably bold, Tessa chucked him under the chin with the tip of her lace fan. "Simply behave yourself.

I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.

He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. "I do not know who to be without him.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

I'll walk you back, Jace said. "As for Simon, he can manage his own way back in the dark-can't you Simon?" "Of course he can, Alec said indignantly, as if eager to make up for his earlier slighting of Simon. "He's a vampire-and," he added, "I just realized that you were probably joking. Never mind me.

I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.