Love potions? For Will Herondale? T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.

History gets written by the winners.

I did it because I love you!" he half-shouted, and then, as if registering the shocked look her face, he said in a more subdued voice, "I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.

Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.

Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.