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Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each...more

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Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting...more

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If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers...more

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Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?""By leaping into the Void? Not really.

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Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that t...more

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The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.

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He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some go...more

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El hambre agudiza el ingenio,” said Raphael.Hunger sharpens the wit.“Good proverb,” said Magnus. “However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet ...more

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They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of ...more

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When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.

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What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

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[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

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Magnus threw the monkey a fig. The monkey took the fig."There," said Magnus. "Let us consider the matter settled."The monkey advanced, chewing in a me...more

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Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in real, bright fire and she had tipped back her head a...more

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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.