As Kit’s father used to say about various criminals, Julian was the kind of person who could descend into Hell and come out with the devil himself owing him a favor.
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is confront our own failings.
Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It’s like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.
Ragnor’s important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus’s stupid hair.
You can’t pay for tragedy with more tragedy, or draw life from death.” “I.
There is fire inside us, Emma, and as it blazes, it burns us, and the burning causes pain – but without its light, I cannot see to draw.
We all change the world, with every day of living in it,” Magnus said. “You just have to decide HOW you want to change the world.
Julian,” she said. “I was angry at you. I missed you. But I didn’t stop loving you.” She brushed the back of her hand lightly against his cheek. “As long as you exist and I exist, I will love you.
I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.
It’s hard to believe how much light you cand find in the darkness, when you have someone who loves you.
She’d tried to program it when they’d gotten into the Toyota, but it had refused to turn on. Once, the GPS had only spoken in a heavy German accent for weeks. Julian had decided it was possessed.
I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus we question them. We cannot help it.
She couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment she’d fallen in love with Jace, but there had always been something about him that reminded her of a lion, a wild animal unfettered by rules, the promise of a life of freedom. Never “I can’t,” but always “I can.” Always the risk and the surety, never the fear or the question.
Everyone has things they’re afraid of. It’s part of being human.
Simon bristled. She wasn’t his Isabelle, not anymore. He wondered if she ever truly had been. Isabelle didn’t seem like the type of girl to belong to someone. It was one of the things he liked best about her.
You’re quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet,” said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. “It is only that it never makes a difference.
He’d probably been born with abs. Some were born with abs, some achieved abs, and some – like Simon – had abs thrust upon them by cruel instructors.
You decide the truth about yourself. No one else. And the choice about what kind of person you will be is yours alone.
Magnus noticed Maryse and Robert, who did not have the best relationship and hardly ever spoke to each other, having a brief whispered consultation about what YouTube might be.
He’s a filthy pervert. Jace should stand for Consul instead.” “I am also a filthy pervert,” said Jace, “or at least I aspire to be. You have no idea what I get up to in my spare time. Just last week I asked Clary to buy me a –.