Sometimes you don’t have to search out danger, sometimes danger finds you.
There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
Jace looked as if she had slapped him. “Why are you determined not to believe us?” “Because she loves you,” said Valentine. Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.
Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.
Is that why you didn’t call me? Because I’m an idiot?
Regret is such a pointless emotion, don’t you agree?
Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can’t help how you feel.
Because you told me you don’t have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that’s very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.
With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.
Then again, it was Jace. He’d pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.
They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.
Seeing through glamour is easy. It’s people that are hard.
Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else’s.
Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade.
If you’re texting Magnus to say ‘I think u r kewl’ I’m going to kill you.
If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you’d have forever.
There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.
The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.
Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They’re peculiar that way.