Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.

For a moment she just stared, wondering if there were another girl staying here, or if Sebastian had taken to cross-dressing.

If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.