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With my last effort, my hand instinctively raised to protect my face. My eyes closed, and I drifted.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

'And are you not affected at all?' I asked, irked. 'By my presence?'

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

Boyd stood up and held his arms out before him, both palms upturned, like a man who's just set something free.

If you could hold your breath, batten yourself down, and stop every atom from its agitation within you, she had said, you could vault past infinity.

The note itself had given her trouble because she was not good with words.

They all laughed then, and it was a little easier.

Tonight he would only watch. He had promised the blind man.

That night, in my bed in the honey house, when I closed my eyes, bee hum ran through my body. Ran through the whole earth. It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.

'If you love him,' Ellen said, 'go and find his father.'

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.

Now, secret in her hand, the cloth seemed to speak a silent, pulsing message to Kira.

And we sat in the sorrow for a while, until the mosquitoes collected around us and chased us indoors.

Philip could not help a shudder of revulsion. A mad bull was just what William was like.

And I need you to stop kissing other people just because they're standing next to you when the ball drops.

I have lost thee, my poor little mad master--it is a bitter thought--and I had come to love thee so!

Fortunately, we Shadowhunter monsters were around to save her.

Drayton twisted his hands in anguish at this display of feminine angst.

I'm nauseated by your fear because it shows a lack of trust in me.

"You're on to me, Lloyd. I'm afraid I'll have to kill you now. Be a honey and sit still while I strangle you."

She stared at her desktop angrily. Then, with both hands, she pushed everything off to the left. Files began to topple, and she let them...Pink message slips that had been stacked in order of date and time were suddenly jumbled. But she had just given herself a good expanse of wood on which to work. A place to start fresh, to think fresh.

"Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me?"

"A disagreement doesn't make her a murderer," said Theodosia lightly. "It only means she's a young woman blessed with gumption."

In the pounding blackness, I imagine the mountain has swallowed me. Rock scrapes my face, my chest and hips, and I exhale every last molecule of oxygen in my lungs.