As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination.
There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.
I knew then that I hadn’t stopped believing in God. I’d just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don’t think it matters. Either way we’re on our own.
She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like “Egad!” This didn’t happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much stranger things in his life, and also because nobody used the word “Egad!” anymore. His eyes widened, though.
She managed a smile. “You’re kind of pushy, you know.” He shrugged. “I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish,” he said, and with a flourish, offered his arm again.
Fire tests gold.
I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.
Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world.
If I kiss you all day every day for the rest of my life, it won’t be enough.
The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I’m concerned.? – Magnus Bane.
Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.
God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.
Will-,” Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went.
Demon pox,? said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.
You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale. Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.
Nerd love. It’s a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.
Beauty is harsh.
I loved you recklessly from the moment I knew you. I never cared about the consequences. I told myself I did, I told myself you wanted me to, and so I tried, but I never did. I wanted you more than I wanted to be good. I wanted you more than I wanted anything, ever.