She remembered what it felt like to have her hands in that hair, how holding him had anchored her not just to the world, but to herself.
Never forget, Jules. The choices we make, make us.
They are only what makes me feel beautiful and powerful in this moment. I am exactly as I choose to be.
He believed there was more to life than blood and fire. There was beauty, there was art, there was color.
He shut the door behind him and came to lean against one of the bedposts, watching her at the vainity table. He had shrugged off his jacket and undone his tie. His dark hair was mussed and in the slighlty blurred mirror, he looked no different to Tessa than he had when he was seventeen.
Jace stiffened, and for a moment Maia saw through the Daniel-like savage amusement to what was underneath, and it was dark and agonized and reminded her more of her own eyes in the mirror than of her brother’s.
He put his sister’s card in his pocket. He left home for a strange new life and carried her love with him, as he had once before.
He would have given anything to be with the one he loved.
It was as though each of them had discovered something unexpected but infinitely desirable. They were not yet sure of each other, but they wanted to be.
Magnus tells me I was a hero. And I see on your face when you’re looking at me that you’re searching for that guy. The guy you knew who was a hero, who did great things. I don’t remember doing those things. I don’t know if that makes me not a hero anymore. But I’d like to try to be that guy again.
But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I always feel like I’m alive.
Alec kissed as he did all things, so dedicated and wholehearted he swept Magnus away.
I always wanted a parabatai” she said a little wistfully. “Someone who is sworn to protect you and to watch your back. A best friend forever, for your whole life.
When you fight, you should fight with your whole heart.
I don’t know where I belong,” he said, “But if you let me, I will try to belong here.
The fact that he’d been here only two minutes and already had a girl hurling herself onto his bed would have been thrilling, except that of course she was fleeing infernal rodents.
We will have to rough it like mundanes do, and take the fanciest, most luxurious train available on a romantic overnight through the Alps. You see the sacrifices I am willing to make for the sake of safety.
She sounded fond. Usually she was carefully polite or businesslike. She had never been fond before.
Oh no, Brother Hop-in-the-sack-ariah.
All the beautiful surprises of life are what make life worth living.