I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.'

It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of "standing."'

It's leaning,' Jace told him. 'Leaning comes right before standing.

“Will." Her hands pulled at his shirt, and it came away, the buttons tearing, hi…”

“He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and me…”

“Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as h…”

“Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if …”