I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

Sometimes you don't have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

you know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-" "Going to the Eiffel Tower?

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.

It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.