Maybe you just never knew what it was like to want something you couldn’t have before.
No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You’re both crazy walking arsenals.
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.
Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story.
Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds.
Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse’s heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle’s propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.
I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component – our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.
I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I’d break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had.
I have lost everything. Lost everything. Everything. – William Herondale.
But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it’s flickering.
Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.
The Silent brothers are doing nude cartwheels in the hallways.
He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.
Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?
We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.
But it was Valentine. I saw him. In fact, he had the Sword with him when he came down to the cells and taunted me through the bars. It was like a bad movie, except he didn’t actually twirl his mustache. – Jace Wayland.
But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.
When you love someone, you don’t have a choice. Love takes your choices away. – Clary Fray.
I don’t know why I had to fall in love with someone who’s more stubborn than I am.