Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

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

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. "But I don't want anything else in the world.

She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.