I'd do almost anything for you, Simon said quietly. I'd die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you'd pick them? Is that—I don't know, is that a moral sort of love at all?

City of Lost Souls (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2014) - ISBN: 9781442416871