As Emma watched, Jace offered Kit a slim silver dagger with a design of herons in flight etched on the handle. Kit took it carefully, nodding his head.
She had a soul, and that meant she could be saved.
It’s the worst idea in the world that I love you like this.
Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover?
One of us,” said Malcolm, “is worth five hundred of you. I can burn you to the ground in six seconds flat and use the ashes to stuff a teddy bear for my girlfriend. Not that I have a girlfriend at the moment,” he added, “but one lives to hope.
Jace Herondale and Clary Fairchild weren’t heroes in a vacuum – there was a war. They were forced to make choices. Those moments come for all of us. They will come for you, too.
I am no faerie. I am Mark Blackthorn of the Los Angeles Institute. It doesn’t matter what they say or what they do to me. I still remember who I am.
The Law is hard, but it is the Law.” “I thought it was ‘the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.’” “That.
Magnus thought once again of the blue-eyed man standing in his parlor. Then he lit a match and burned the note.
Feel this arm,” said Simon. “Rock hard! I don’t mean to brag, but it’s all bone. All bone.
Sometimes it seemed like her face was all the heart he had left.
I’m not sorry that I met you. If we never meet again, I will hope that one day a weapon made by my hand may yet prove useful to you in some way.
If I’m a hero of war, so is he.
Fortunate is the one who knows the name of their heart. They are the ones whose hearts are never truly lost. They can always call their heart back home.
He could sleep in the ruins of cities lost for centuries.
You are my first so many things, Alec Lightwood.
Each family has a history we pass on to each successive generation. We bear the glories and the burdens of our name, the good and the bad our ancestors have done, through all our lives. We try to live up to our names, so that those who come after us will bear lighter burdens.
You’re not the only one on that ledge. If we jump, we jump together. We fall together.
There are things no magic can destroy, for they are magic in themselves.
Magnus was a really cool guy.