Cast Long Shadows (Ghosts of the Shadow Market, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

Friends who were easy to get might be easy to lose, and Matthew wanted to keep people.

Sometimes it seemed like her face was all the heart he had left. He could not do much for her, but he had once promised to spend his life guarding her from the very wind from heaven. He intended to keep his word

The sweetest woman God ever made,

She was always his anchor in cold seas, her warm hand, her steadfast eyes, and it was as if a flame leaped between them and a mad hope.

Where shall I carry it? “Wherever you please. I thought I would walk with you a little way, my parabatai.” How far? asked Jem. Will smiled. “Need you ask? I will go with you as far as I possibly may.”

I will go with you as far as I possibly may.”