It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

Well, hello there, Mother,” Sebastian said in a voice like silk. “Surprised to see me?

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

the action we take in the name of love,those are moral or immoral.and normally it wouldn't matter

Strangely, what pierced his heart and mind most sharply was not the memory of her lips under his at the ball, but the way she had leaned into his neck, as if she trusted him utterly. He would have given everything he had in the world and everything he would ever have, just to lie beside her in the narrow infirmary bed and hold her while she slept. Pulling away from her had been like pulling his own skin off, but he'd had to do it.

"A date," Jace repeated. "Often a 'boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case,' 'an offer of a n evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly.'"

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