You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale.
She laced her fingers through his. “Good night,” she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.
I always thought I was happy being the dark star to your supernova.
My old tutor used to say that the hearts of Nephilim were like the hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed.
His eyes were green.
Very tight. Very leather.
He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.
You are home for me now.” – Jem to Tessa.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
You’re not happy to see me, then?′ Jace said. ‘I have to say, I’m surprised. I’ve always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cells.
The path to hell is an easy one.
I don’t want the world. I want you.
A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.
He touched her face, gently, with the back of his hand. ‘you disappear so completely into your head sometimes.’ he said. ‘i wish i could follow you.’ you do, she wanted to say, you live in my head all the time.
Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234.
Luke could only imagine the odd picture they made: the starving vampire, the dying warlock, and the werewolf keeping watch at the window.
It’s okay to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth loving.
Is that,” Isabelle said in a low, amazed voice, “Brother Zachariah? When did he get hot?
Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.
The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue of a sky slipping toward evening in Heaven, when angels who had been sweet all day found themselves tempted to sin.