What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul.

"Jem?" he said. "Is it you, James?" "Who else?" Jem's voice.

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.

Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”.

And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

Kill me, little sister. Kill me and you kill Jace, too.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.