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For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.

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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.

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The bridge reminded her that there was still someone in the world that she loved. That even if half of her heart was gone forever, the other half was still here. Unreachable, maybe, but here.

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All the Silent Brothers hushed when Brother Zachariah was with Tessa. In a way, they were all in love with her, and some resented her for that. Brother Enoch had made it clear he was tired of two names ceaselessly echoing in their minds.

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Jem went inside to his wife and his baby and his boy, to his long-awaited home.

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“Being parabatai is complicated. I hit my parabatai in the face once.”
“You did what?”
“As I said. I struck my parabatai—I loved him more than anyone else in the world I’ve ever loved save Tessa, and I struck him in the face because my heart was breaking.

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“Love charm for the handsomest Silent Brother?”
Lily snorted. “I hardly think Brother Beast-with-two-backs-ariah needs a love charm.”
Thank you, but no, Brother Zachariah told the faerie woman. I’m very flattered, though Brother Enoch is a fine figure of a man.

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He tried to rise to his feet, but his knees gave out; he slumped to the ground, blood running from the corners of his mouth. The cane had rolled from his hand, almost to Tessa’s feet.

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"To tell you of my feelings first, before I showed them. To write poetry for you—"
"You don’t even like poetry," Tessa said, her voice catching on a half laugh of relief.
"No. But you make me want to write it. Does that not count for anything?"

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He played himself watching the glint of his own ring on Tessa’s hand on the train from York, knowing it was all a charade, knowing, too, that he wished that it wasn’t.

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Wilhelmina Yiqiang Ke Carstairs. For their lost Will, the first and only possible name, and wild rose, because all those who Jem loved best grew in beautiful rebellion.

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Jem said, “We want you to stay, and to know that the choice is entirely yours, and we wanted to show you something. We want you to know there is nothing in this house more precious to us than you.”
Kit had stayed.

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“I helped light the pyres,” he said. “A clever man I knew once said that we cannot understand life, and therefore we cannot hope to understand death. I have lost many I loved to death, and it does not get easier, nor does watching the pyres burn.”

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Will, Jem said, and the voice in Tessa’s head was lost but seeking. Will, is that you?

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"There is no shadow," Jem agreed.
"And we are in a place that I long wished to go with you. This is Shanghai, where I was born. Remember when we used to talk about traveling here together? There were so many places I wanted to show you."

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Of course she knew what he was thinking. She always did.

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Jem smiled at the sight of his daughter, and paused long enough to think, Will, my Will. You would be so proud.

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He was Jem, the boy with the violin. Her Jem. Age had not consumed him, as it had her Will, but he might be taken from her all the same.

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“But you’re not a Shadowhunter anymore,” Emma said. “The vow doesn’t hold.” When he said nothing, she pressed on: “You owe me, you know. For not being around.”
The corner of his mouth flicked up into a smile. “You drive a hard bargain, Emma Carstairs.”