Well,โ Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, โyou behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all.โ โI donโt,โ Gabriel said. โI just dislike him.โ He pointed at Will. โDear me,โ said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. โIs it because Iโm better-looking than you?
Cassandra ClareWill closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire.
Cassandra ClareThe Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great sadness. "I tried," she said. "I tried to love you. But it isn't easy to love a child that isn't human in the least...." "Not human?" said an unfamiliar female voice. "Well, if she isn't human, Enoch, what is she?" The voice sharpened in impatience. "What do you mean, you don't know? Everyone's something. This girl can't be nothing at all.
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