I’m not sure there’s such thing a thing as a normal life.
You asked me who I belong to. I belong to you.
There are memories that time can’t erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don’t believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.
Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.
The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight – paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.
Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips.
The right man won’t care.
The destruction of all Shadowhunters’ said Scott. ‘I rather thought you knew that. It isn’t a gardening club.
She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.
Will bounded up onto one of the ladders and yanked a book off the shelf. “I’ll find you something else to read. Catch.” He had let it fall without looking and Tessa had to dart forward to seize it before it hit the floor. – Clockwork Angel.
Behind her, Jace moved out into the water with a contained grace that barely rippled the surface. Simon behind him, was splashing and cursing.
You’re not so bad. You’ll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.
And then you’d turn to me and smile that funny smile, and I know you’d forgotten all about me and just remembered – but I was never mad at you. Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else’s.
There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw.
The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.
What you said was true. we don’t live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.
To her you’re Jocelyn’s daughter. But I’ll always be Valentine’s son.
Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time.
Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad.
To love is to destroy, to destroy is to love. -Jace Herondale.