If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked." (Jace Wayland)

It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.

Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?

You know," Kirk said finally, breaking the silence. "I see it. He is pretty hot.

It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.