I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will." "There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.

Sometimes," said Will, "they're even supposed to blow up.

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.

Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs