Is that why you insist on carrying about enormous tomes everywhere you go, that you might visit violence upon innocent persons? Done to death by my best friend – my heart’s brother – my own dear parabatai-.
James still had his book tucked under his arm, but Matthew knew better than to fight doomed battles.
The face of the one you love is the best mirror of all.
If she lived until the sun died, there would never be any other for her besides Will and Jem, those two twin souls, the only souls she had ever loved.
Absolutely. I did it for Alec, Alec did it for me – well, actually, he hated Clary at first, but he came around.” “I bet you didn’t like Magnus much, either,” said Julian, still with the same odd, stiff look on his face. “Maybe not,” said Jace, “but I never would have said so.” “Because it would have hurt Alec’s feelings?” Emma asked. “No,” said Jace, “because Magnus would have turned me into a hat rack,” and.
She supposed it was not the most romantic thing in the world to say that every time she saw James Herondale she felt as if she’d been attcked by a waterfowl, but it was true.
It was part of the dichotomy of Alec that had caught Magnus unaware and left him fascinated – that Alec seemed old for his age, serious and responsible, and yet that he approached the world with a tender wonder that made all things new. Alec was a warrior who brought Magnus peace.
Humans are animals. Pain is their nature.
There are times, I think, where we’re each called. Where we can choose to rise up or not to rise up.
Usually Robert looked slightly uneasy whenever Alec expressed affection to Magnus. This time, however, he was staring fixedly at the warlock baby and did not even seem to hear.
No,” said Magnus. “Nor do I intend to tear my whole life into strips and rearrange it because of a baby.” What he said sounded eminently reasonable to him. He was stunned when Robert and Maryse both laughed.
If you pretend to feel nothing, the pretence may become true. said Jem. That would be a pity.
I’ve realized – I don’t need to change. And neither do you, Helen, or you, Aline. It’s the world that needs to change, and we’re going to be the ones to change it.
I want everyone I care about – I want people I don’t even know, I want all of us – to know we have each other’s backs so we do not have to fight alone.
Tell me, Matthew,” James said. “Tell me the name of the shadow that is always hanging over you. I can become a shadow. I could fight it for you.
Divided we stand,′ Simon thought, his stubborn biceps refusing to bulge. ‘United we do push-ups.
We expect betrayal from our enemies. Not from those who are supposed to care for us.
That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.
Isabelle. Simon’s mouth moved to form the shape of her name, pressing it into his pillow. He’d told himself he wasn’t going to think about her, not until he was really getting somewhere in the Acedemy. Not until he was on his way to being better, being the person she wanted him to be.
You choose to be yourself, your best self. You can be descended from gods and monsters. You can take the light they left you and be a lamp shining out all their light made new. You can battle the darkness. You can choose always to fight and hope. That is what it means to have a great heart. Don’t be afraid of being yourself.