She'd been impressed by his looks at first--those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes--but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now. She didn't like boys who looked as if they never got mad about anything. In Isabelle's world, rage equaled passion equaled a good time.

You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.

Honestly I don't know why i have these parties" "Because of your cat" "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

As long as we're together, I'm ready for anything.

We don't require luck," said Will, "we have a heavenly mandate, after all. With God on your side, what does luck matter?

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.