Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.

No' is a magical word," he told her. "Here's how it goes. You say, 'Simon, I have an insane, suicidal plan. Would you like to help me carry it out?' And I say, "Why, no.

Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.

She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I.