One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one’s goal.
Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see.
I need someone who can keep up with me, not some sickly creature that looks as if he’s doddering off to the grave.
I hate to break it to you, but if he’s interested in your highly personal areas, he probably isn’t interested in your sisters.
Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?
The Brother’s hood fell back, and his silvery hair shone out in the dim chamber like starlight. All the air rushed out of Tessa’s lungs in a single instant. The Silent Brother was Jem.
I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.
In all the world, you are what I love the most.
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.
Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder.
I get the feeling you’d rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.
I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.
As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.
It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn’t find it a drawback.
Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.
Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest...
Have a little faith in my magic fingers.
Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants.
So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.
Everyone has something they can’t live without.