As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane –.
The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.
The point wasn’t that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.
It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn’t see what was going on in front of your face.
I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.
People were made up of all sorts of different bits, Dru thought. Funny bits and romantic bits and selfish bits and brave bits. Sometimes you saw only a few of them. Maybe it was when you saw them all that you realised you knew someone really well.
Making promises you can’t keep is worse than making no promises at all.
Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken before. And she would put herself back together and go on, because the memory of having had Jem would be better than never having had him at all.
Will stopped glaring at Gabriel, and turned to Tessa. He looked at her and his face softened: the traces of the wild, broken boy he had been vanished, replaced with the expression often worn by the man he was now, who knew what it was to love and be loved. “Dear heart,” he said. He took her hand and kissed it. “Who knows your courage better than I?
We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes.
There’s never going to be anyone else for me. That’s just how it is.
He hadn’t wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he’d thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction.
The Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.
None of this is fair. It isn’t fair that part of your life was ripped from you. It’s not fair that you were ripped away from me. I’m so angry Simon.
We get used to living one way, even if it’s a bad way or a hard one. When that’s gone, there’s a hole to fill. It’s in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.
You think angels are gentle,” said Julian, “they are anything but. They bring justice in blood and heavenly fire. They take vengeance with fists and iron. Their glory is such it would burn out your eyes if you looked at them. It is a cold and brutal glory.
Alex- Alec, if I had given you the impression I had accepted the idea of your death, I can only apologize. I tried to, I thought I had- and yet still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready to let you go. But it’s you, and I realize now that I won’t be any more ready to lose you than I am right now. Which is not at all.
Loving someone doesn’t mean you’re never going to make mistakes.
The sky was a road and the stars made pathways; the moon was a watchtower, a lighthouse that led you home.
Ah, Watson,” said Ty. “You may not yourself be luminous, but you are an extraordinary conductor of light.