I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.
One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.
Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.
He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he’d set the violin back in its box, Will’s eyes were closed, but Tessa’s were full of tears.
You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.
It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others.
Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.
Your life is yours to live as you choose.
Your plans are suicidal. At best.
Clary’s mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.
Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.
It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.
Now that you know the truth, you can never go back.
It’s because you’re too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.
Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself.
My mom says you only need three people you can rely on to achieve self-actualization.
The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.
Tatiana’s eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul.