There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.
I am catastrophically in love with you.
One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.
I think you are very selfless.
She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.
Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.
We are responsible for protecting Tessa!
You understand my music.
Hope is not an illusion.
They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.
I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.
Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made.
He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because “night” and “starlight” rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn’t turn out that well...
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.
It was good to be here with Hem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.
Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.