How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide and deny it. You—you never hid your feelings. Looking back, it was clear and plain, and yet I never saw it. I was astonished when Tessa told me that you were engaged. You’ve always been the source in my life of such good things, James. I never thought you would be the source of pain, and so, wrongly, I never thought of your feelings at all. And that is why I was so blind.

Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

Books will always be there for you.

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

Jace hated it when other people were worried on his behalf. It made him feel like maybe there really was something to worry about.

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story