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“Ni hen piao liang.”
“What did you say?” “I said your hair is coming undone. Here,” he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear.
“every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. But you know that. You must know. Don’t you?”
“By the Angel,” he said. “Perhaps we do need a chaperon.”
he smiled, just at her.
Even the diamond had not been real.
“We’ve been married for years, Henry. What did you think I felt about you?”
“Tessa Gray, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?”
“There is a force and strength in love,”
can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life—whatever its length—happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.”
“Demon pox,”
Omg
Will leaped from his chair and was dancing in a circle.
“You don’t think he has demon pox, do you?”
Et tu, Brute!” He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.
“I did it because I love you!”
“It’s too late,”
“Jem has proposed to me,” she blurted out. “And I have said yes.” “What?”
only now his hand was visibly shaking. “Do you love him?”
“Telemann,” he said. “Fantasia in E-flat major.”
But I could not help thinking that perhaps the reason you were so determined to save her was because you knew what she meant to me.”
tipped his head back, his smile incandescent. “Did I guess correctly, or am I a thickheaded idiot?” “You’re an idiot,” said Will, and swallowed hard, past his dry throat. “But—you are correct. I know what she means to you.”
This is sick and twisted
She did not look toward him.
the happiness going out of him like a fire doused by rain.
“I do not know two finer people,” he said, “and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long.” His eyes sought Tessa’s, then slid away from her, fastening on Jem. “Congratulations, brother.”
‘Demon pox,’ ”
“Father is a worm.”
“Ah,” said Henry. “Too big to be stepped on, then.”
“Perhaps not,” said Will, who had ears like a bat’s. “But I would make a radiant bride.”
Jem had been teaching Tessa Mandarin, at her insistence.
“Wo xi wang ni ming tian ke yi jia gei wo.”
inscription on the back in the light from the corridor. “I can’t wear this, Magnus. It’s too pretty for a man.” “So are you.
should be happier.” His light eyes raked her. “A heart divided against itself cannot stand, as they say. You love them both, and it tears you apart.” “House,” said Tessa. He raised an eyebrow. “What was that?” “A house divided against itself cannot stand. Not a heart. Perhaps you should not attempt quotations if you cannot get them correct.”
In Raziel’s name and in defense of his honor, Consul Josiah Wayland
These sign offs keep getting longer and longer
and peculiarly interesting-looking from others.
did you imagine that there exists any quarrel, large or small, that could make me stop loving you?”
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there is a beauty that brevity alone provides.”
Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable, Will had said to her. Sometimes one cannot be both.
Henry choked on his tea and had to be pounded on the back by Charlotte,
you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart,
All the stories are true.
“She is my priority!” Will shouted.
“What did Magnus mean by asking you if I knew you were in love with Tessa?”
“The world is a wheel,” he said. “When we rise or fall, we do it together.”
My blessing, for all that it is worth, is on you both.”
even Magnus looked alarmed.
“I am the head of the Institute; you will remember who saved you from your father and show me respect.”
It is just another beautiful part of the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.”
Would the Shadowhunters be the only ones to remain stagnant and changeless, and therefore doomed?
Jem was dead.
and besides, how else can we be married?” “What?”
