Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

I did it because I love you!" he half-shouted, and then, as if registering the shocked look her face, he said in a more subdued voice, "I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.

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

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we?

And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael, I mean." "That sounds like something he would do," said Luke. His tone was neutral, but there was something in his voice that made Clary look at him sideways. Did he not believe her? "Jace saw him die, " she added, as if to bolster her claim. "That's awful," said Luke. "Poor messed-up kid.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.