blackthorn

What are you most scared of, Caitlin? What I can do to you, or how I make you feel?

You upped the ante with the wrong vampire, Caitlin.

I'm already inside your head. And your body's most definitely next.

You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.

She exhaled curtly. ____ a serryn. That__ all you see. I__ just something to be tortured, slain or sold off as a commodity. That__ hardly the most appealing of traits._ __ell your eyes that. Because you really shouldn__ look at me the way you do. No serryn has looked at me like that.

I__ not punishing you._ __o?_ __o. You__ know if I was. Trust me.

Playing the martyr doesn__ suit you, Leila.___aybe not, but playing the complete and utter bastard clearly suits you.

I will not be threatened. Do you understand me?_ He leaned closer again, his lips less than a couple of inches from hers. __ow try saying it without trembling.

What could you do, when what threatened the ones you loved was something else you loved just as much?

Idris had been green and gold and russet in the autumn, when Clary had first been there. It had a stark grandeur in the winter: the mountains rose in the distance, capped white with snow, and the trees along the side of the road that led back to Alicante from the lake were stripped bare, their leafless branches making lace-like patterns against the bright sky.Sometimes Jace would slow the horse to point out the manor houses of the richer Shadowhunter families, hidden from the road when the trees were full but revealed now. She felt his shoulders tense as they passed one that nearly melded with the forest around it: it had clearly been burned and rebuilt. Some of the stones still bore the black marks of smoke and fire. __he Blackthorn manor,_ he said. __hich means that around this bend in the road is _ He paused as Wayfarer summited a small hill, and reined him in so they could look down to where the road split in two. One direction led back toward Alicante _ Clary could see the demon towers in the distance _ while the other curled down toward a large building of mellow golden stone, surrounded by a low wall. _ _ the Herondale manor,_ Jace finished.The wind picked up; icy, it ruffled Jace__ hair. Clary had her hood up, but he was bare-headed and bare-handed, having said he hated wearing gloves when horseback riding. He liked to feel the reins in his hands. __id you want to go and look at it?_ she asked.His breath came out in a white cloud. ____ not sure.

We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there__ a pecking order in that, don__ you?