It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

There were some feelings you never forgot.

Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?

Jace hated it when other people were worried on his behalf. It made him feel like maybe there really was something to worry about.

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last.