You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

I’d rather have you in my life even as a brother than not at all—

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

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.

With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, “Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back.

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!