Ty shook his head. ‘No,’ he said. ‘I’m different.’ He didn’t sound bothered, or at all upset about it. It was a fact he knew about himself and that was all. Ty had a quiet confidence Kit found to his surprise that he envied.
You made me understand that love creates far more joy than any pain it causes.
When he let go of Clary, he turned and hugged Jace. Clary watched, tears running down her face.
Sed lex, dura lex,” said Balogh. The latin phrase had been hammered into them from the first day of the Academy, and Simon was comming to hate the sound of it -so often was it used as an excuse for acting like monsters.
We change the Clave,” said Alec. “From inside. We make new Laws. Better ones.
A skilled calligrapher named OfficeMax,” Julian muttered, but Emma didn’t smile at him.
You’re a Centurion,” Ty said. “You have vows – ” “Vows of friendship and love are stronger,” said Diego. Drusilla.
It will have to be Jem. He’s impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.
Izzy -I don’t know why you’d wait for me, but if you do, I promise to make myself worth that wait. Or I’ll try. I can promise I am going to try.
I don’t know who I am. I look at myself and I see Stephen Herondale, but I act like a Lightwood and talk like my father – like Valentine. So I see who I am in your eyes, and I try to be that person, because you have faith in that person and I think faith might be enough to make me what you want.
Do you see that man?” Isabelle asked, pointing at Simon. Apparently she was talking about him. “That’s Simon Lewis, and he is my boyfriend. So if any of you think about trying to hurt him because he’s a mundie or – may the Angel have mercy on your soul – pursuing him romantically, I will come after you, I will hunt you down, and I will crush you.
Your witchlight rune-stone. Every Shadowhunter has one.” He took Kit’s hand unselfconsciously and pressed the stone into his palm. A hot flutter went through Kit’s stomach, surprising him. He’d never felt anything like it before.
If my words comforted you, we are even,” he said. “Your voice is the music I love best in all the world.
You have proved yourself, Emma,” he said. “You could ride with Gwyn, if you chose.” “The Wild Hunt doesn’t allow women,” she pointed out, the words torn from her mouth by the wind. “The more fool they,” he said. “Women are fiercer by far than men.
She wanted to say more, say the words they were forbidden to say, but she didn’t – just looked at him silently and thought them, wondering if anyone had thought these words before in the Silent City. If they had thought them like this: with equal hope and despair. I love you. I love you. I love you.
It’s easier to end someone else’s love for you than kill your love for them.
Instead of showing compassion, or good sense, or care, many people regarded the clinic with hate and disgust. Every age thought they were so enlightened, and every age was stumbling around in much the same darkness of ignorance and fear.
He’s a lot better when he’s with you. He’s better because he’s happier.
We have time to do everything,” he said, tracing one of his fingers down the side of her face. “We have forever.
The light winked out. Jem and Tessa were already in motion. In the century and a half they’d known each other, much had changed, but this truth endured: when a Herondale called, they would answer.