It’s so hard to be sassy to the Fair Folk. You people never get jokes.
Love means you see someone.“... “Their touch stay on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your min.
They were in love, of the realest, truest kind.
One pancake at a time, Tavvy,” Helen was saying. “Yes, I know you can get three in your mouth, but that doesn’t mean you should.
If there was one thing Julian’s life had taught him, it was that nothing was more dangerous than hope.
Like, say, hypothetically, if your entire life were going to change tomorrow, if it were going to be the first day of the rest of your life, I’d want to be a part of that.
Jem said, “we want you to stay, and to know that the choice is entirely yours, and we wanted to show you something. We want you to know there is nothing in this house more precious to us than you.
James thwacked him over the head with his book. it was a large book.
Some betrayals cannot be forgiven.
Because when this universe was born, when it blasted into existence in fire and glory, everything that would ever exist was created. Our souls are made of that fire and glory, of the atoms of it, the fragments of stars. Everyone’s are, but I believe ours, yours and mine, are made from the dust of the same star. That’s why we’ve always been drawn to each other like magnets, all our lives. All the pieces of us belong together.
Memories were like love: wound and cure, both at once.
In books and movies, people were either whisked away to a magical land in the clothes they were standing up in, or they glossed over the packing part entirely. Simon now felt he had been robbed of critical information by the media. Should he be putting the kitchen knives in his bag? Should he bring the toaster and rig it up as a weapon?
He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved.
Being asked out by a Shadowhunter had been among the top ten strangest and most unexpected things that had ever happened to Magnus, and Magnus had always endeavored to live a very unexpected life.
I thought if you stopped loving me, you’d be sad for a while. And if I was sad forever, that would be okay. Because you’d be alright, and I’d still be your parabatai. And if you could be happy eventually, then I could be happy too, for you.
Cristina, of all the people I know, you’re the most generous, and you spend the most time thinking about what makes other people happy. I think you should do whatever makes you happy. You deserve it.
I have been in the land of Faerie for years and it is a place where mortal blood is turned to fire. It is a place of beauty and terror beyond what can be imagined here. I have ridden with the Wild Hunt. I have carved a clear path of freedom among the stars and outrun the wind. And no I am asked to walk upon the earth again.
He can be High Warlock of my pants.
It lightens my heart to see you with it. We could all do with lighter hearts tonight.
The face of the one you love is the best mirror of all. It shows you your own happiness and your own pain and it helps you to bear both, because to bear either alone is to be overwhelmed by the flood.