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Jem is my greatest sin.
You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa
Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs
"Jem?" he said. "Is it you, James?" "Who else?" Jem's voice.
I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.
Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!
She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.
See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin
For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.
She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged with them, and silently he cursed the Consul for not seeing it.
You think she is pretty?' Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined this sort of thing. 'Yes, and you do too.' 'I hadn't noticed, really.' 'Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing.
Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness.
