You took my life apart and put it back together.
Maryse was more than a girl. She was a force.
Emma gasped. “You drank faerie wine? Cristina! That’s how you black out and wake up the next day under a bridge with a tattoo that says I LOVE HELICOPTERS.
Why should we isolate people who are brave enough to try to become like us – who want to help people? Why should we treat them as if they’re less than us, until they prove their worthiness or die? I won’t do it.
And when one day people look back on me and what my life meant, I don’t want them to say, ‘Alec Lightwood fought in the Dark War’ or even ‘Alec Lightwood was Consul once.’ I want them to think, ‘Alec Lightwood loved one man so much he changed the world for him.
Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heat.
Hey, where were you while the game was happening?” George asked. “I thought you were never coming back and I’d have to be pals with Jon Cartwright. Then I thought about being pals with Jon, was overwhelmed with despair, and decided to find one of the frogs I know are living in here, give it little frog glasses and call it Simon 2.0.
My grandfather was a worm.
It would be unjust to blame the past for choices made in the present. Nor can we justify present choices by invoking the sins of the past.
Please don’t ever tell Jace I said he was a badass.
Livvy held up a hand. “In Emma’s defense, Cameron’s annoying, but he’s hot.
It has been many years since I have eaten freely at my choice, fair one, and a plate of strawberries is all that I desire.” – Mark Blackthorn.
He waved good-bye to all these people he barely knew, and somehow loved anyway, and he hoped they could not tell how relived he was to be going.
Sometimes, she thought, it was as if she were a kite, and Julian the flier: She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.
There was sadness in his eyes, a sadness so profound it was almost frightening.
Alec was used to feeling a combination of affection and annoyance toward the people he loved. Typically, he’d start the relationship with a feeling of total annoyance and minimal affection, and then as time passed, the annoyance diminished and the affection grew. This described the arc of his relationship with Jace, his parabatai and closest friend, and more recently described how he’d felt about Clary Fairchild when she’d come into their lives.
Alec had been cranky that day, having wrenched his arm almost out of its socket during a fight with a dragon demon.
Magnus wondered how long Alec was envisioning it would be until they found the baby a home. Alec must think that it would take a while, and Magnus feared Alec was right.
Robert had been thoughtless with his son in the past. It would be a long time of pain and care until things were right between them.
I defy you, Shadowhunters. I mock you with my sugar cravings.