A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

You never cared that I was your sister before.” “Didn’t I?” His black eyes flicked up and down her. “Our father’s dead,” he said. “There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the Morgensterns. You are the only one left whose blood runs in my veins, too. You are my last chance.

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

City of Fallen Angels ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.

I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me.