But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.
Enough, both of you,? Clary said. ‘You can’t be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.’ Technically,? said Simon, ‘I can.’ Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding.
Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to ‘Jace’ or ‘Hot Stuff.
If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you’d have died in childhood.
Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He’s very pretty, and vampires like that. I can’t say I mind either.
Jem: Come in. Jace: Where’s Brother Zachariah? Jem: I’m right here. Jace Herondale. And once more a Herondale is the object of my deliverance. I should have anticipated.
What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name.
If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked.
You disappear so completely into your head sometimes,” he said. “I wish I could follow you.
Your boyfriend’s dead. Thought you should know.
Oh, he’s rude to everyone,” said Isabelle airily. “It’s what makes him so damn sexy.
I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that.
You are not trivial.
Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
Caliph Vathek and his dark horde Are bound for Hell, you won’t be bored! Your faith in me will be restored – Unless this token you find untoward And my poor gift you have ignored.
I see that you are working this vampire angle with some success. And kudos. Lots of girls love that sensitive-undead thing. But I’d drop the whole musician angle if I were you. Vampire rock stars are played out, and besides, you can’t possible be very good.
I’ve never asked him but I’m sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery.
But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn’t follow. That we are essentially not the same. There’s no “till death do us apart” for those who never die.
Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he’d wanted to hurt Clary more than he’d ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn’t sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.