Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat?

It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

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

She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.