Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.
Some people value sentiments over diamonds.
To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.
So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.
Alec slid his hand from Jace’s arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.
Who said we were owed happiness?
That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.
You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.
Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. “It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?” “Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it,” said Will.
What is one person’s pleasure is another’s poison...
There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw.
Light like thin grey soup seeped through the windows. The door opened and Mrs. Dark came in, followed by her sister, who had no head, only the white bone of her spine protruding from her raggedly severed neck.
Go in peace, James Carstairs.
The measure of love is to love without measure. – attributed to Saint Augustine.
Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.
Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.
I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.
I don’t know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don’t think I even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one’s liking.
At last, the wheel comes full circle.