Family is more than blood.
Pain is only what you allow it to be.
Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.
Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.
That was the justice of Heaven. I trust that you are not dismayed.
Sometimes you don’t have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you.
There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
Jace looked as if she had slapped him. “Why are you determined not to believe us?” “Because she loves you,” said Valentine. Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.
Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.
Is that why you didn’t call me? Because I’m an idiot?
Regret is such a pointless emotion, don’t you agree?
Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can’t help how you feel.
Because you told me you don’t have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that’s very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.
With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.
Then again, it was Jace. He’d pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.
They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.
Seeing through glamour is easy. It’s people that are hard.
Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else’s.
Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade.