Miss Cecily," she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house. "Oh, dear," said Tessa. "I have that effect on women," Will said. " I probably should have warned you before you agreed to marry me." "I can still change my mind," Tessa said sweetly. "Don't you dare-," he began with a breathless half laugh.

I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night." -Jace, pg.283-

I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?