Extraits

Nouvel extrait

Alec regarda par terre l'objet en mille morceaux. "Tu as CASSÉ mon TÉLÉPHONE."

Jace haussa les épaules. "Les mecs ne laissent pas les autres mecs appeler les autres mecs. D'accord, ça rend pas pareil. Mais, Les amis, ne laissent pas leurs amis appeler sans cesse leur ex et raccrocher. Sérieusement. Tu dois arrêter."

Alec avait l'air furieux. "Et c'est pour ça que tu as cassé mon tout nouveau téléphone? Merci beaucoup."

Jace sourit avec sérénité et s'allongea de nouveau sur 'herbe."Pas de quoi."

" These were kind of moments that you remembered all your life. But it felt like touching only the edge of happiness; every time she looked at Jace, happiness slipped away from her. How could he be Jace and not-Jace , all at once ?

How could you be heartbroken and happy at the same time ? "

P.221

" He isn't happy, " said Magnus, as if she hadn't spoken.

" Of course he isn't, " Isabelle snapped. " Jace -"

" Jace, " said Magnus, and his hand made fist at his sides. Isabelle stared at him. She had always thought that he didn't mind Jace; like him, even, once the question of Alec's affection had been settled.

Out loud, she said, " I thought you and Jace were friends. "

" It's not that, " said Magnus. " There are some people- people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful ans broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be , it's only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver."

Isabelle shook her head slowly. " You've lost me. Jace is our brother, but for Alec- He's Jace's parabatai, too. "

" I know about parabatai, " said Magnus. " I've known about parabatai so close they were almost the same person. Do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to one who's left -"

P.151

" Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one to tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy, Magnus... "

" I guess I souldn't have said there will be no risk for you," Clary said meekly.

" That's right, " said Simon. " Just remember, when your mother's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cub, I did it for you. "

( Clary and Simon, P.143 )

" God, Clary, look at the evidence. You thought you and Jace were brother and sister ! You sacrificed everything to save his life, and a Greater Demon used him to get you ! When are you going to face the fact the two of you are not meant to be together ? "

P.122

" You know, what you said earlier_that when you ran away you would have like to think someone was looking for you. " He took a deep breath. " I was looking for you. I never stopped. "

P.85

Je ne crois pas que Clary se sente invulnérable. Je pense que, à l'exemple de sa mère, elle considère qu'il y a des choses qui méritent que l'on se sacrifie pour elles...

Luke à Jocelyne

La Cité des Ames Perdues

He had blocked out the image of Magnus walking away from him with one thought, and one only:

He was going to kill Camille Belcourt. »

Epilogue

Magnus’s heart didn’t beat like human hearts did. It was slower, but steady. Sometimes Alec thought it was the steadiest thing in his life. »

Epilogue

Magnus—” Alec took a step toward his boyfriend, and for the first time that he remembered, Magnus moved away from him. His posture was stiff and unfriendly. He was looking at Alec the way he’d look at a stranger, a stranger he didn’t like very much.

“I’m so sorry,” Alec said. His voice sounded scratchy and uneven to his own ears. “I never meant—”

“I was thinking about it, you know,” Magnus said. Spoiler(cliquez pour révéler)“That’s part of why I wanted the Book of the White. Immortality can be a burden. You think of the days that stretch out before you, when you have been everywhere, seen everything. The one thing I hadn’t experienced was growing old with someone—someone I loved. I thought perhaps it would be you. But that does not give you the right to make the length of my life your choice and not mine.”

Epilogue