Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.
Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.
I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.
I don’t know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don’t think I even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one’s liking.
At last, the wheel comes full circle.
His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.
He’d woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression – it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.
It’s your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn’t make you crazy, just different.
If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.
Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen.
Clary stopped dead in her tracks. “Simon?” “Oh, God,” said Jace, sounding resigned. “And here I’d actually hoped I’d got hold of something interesting.” -Clary and Jace pg. 114.
You have something on your neck. What Looks like a bite mark, what were you doing out all night, anyway? Nothing. I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head. And ran into a vampire What? No! I fell. On your neck?
I don’t do what I’m told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don’t even know what the word means.
Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you’ll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you’ll survive.
If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones.
You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.