Magnus’s life was crowded with strange incidents and stranger people. Alec did not know a lot about it yet, but he could learn, and he knew one thing. His sister had said that a trip was how you got to truly know each other, and Alec was absolutely sure that in the bright chaos of his long, strange life, Magnus had stayed kind.
This is why we are chosen warrior partners, because we share such a perfect bond of sympathy. Come to me, Jamie, that we might share a manly embrace.
I should like to have a portrait in the attic,” Matthew mused, “that would show all my sins, while I stayed young and beautiful.
There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion.
Simon gave Clary a look that was supposed to mean: This is weird. She responded with a very clear look of response that said: Superweird.
When people died, it felt like all the pieces of yourself you had given to them went as well. It took so long, building yourself back up until you were whole again, and you were never entirely the same.
The Law is hard,” said Charlotte, “but it is the Law.
To be a Shadowhunter was to live in the shadow of death.
The Folk love nothing more than mortal beauty.
You see things nobody else sees. You can’t talk about it because no one will understand, You have to keep secrets, and secrets – they break you apart. Cut you open. Make you vulnerable.
Enjoying life was essential, but sometimes it was an effort.
Emma was all the good in him, he thought, all that burned bright.
I sometimes think there is nothing more painful than love denied. To love someone you cannot have, to stand beside your heart’s desire and be unable to take them in your arms. A love that cannot be requited. I can think of nothing more painful than that.
But even if they fit differently now, they still fit like sisters.
Neither he nor Annabel did anything wrong. To see someone you love so horribly punished and tortured – to think they’d abandoned you only to find out that you abandoned them – ” She shuddered. “I.
Sometimes you have to Let people blame you. When the only other option is letting bad things happen, it doesn’t matter what people think.
All that is good, and true, is lost.
He wished he could find a way back to believing, even though he knew better, that she was his to protect.
Brother Sixpackariah.
You’re afraid of what everyone is afraid of,” said Emma. “Having your hearts broken, being made miserable by love.