We are all what our pasts have made us, Catarina said. The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we’ve been.
To marry a girl just to make her a widow, said Gabriel Lightwood. Many would say that was not a kindness.
There is more to living than
There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.
The point wasn’t that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.
Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.
So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy? You could say that.
She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood.
Screw the Silent Brothers.No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky.Isabelle!
Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks? They ate it too, Will reminisced. Bloodthirsty little beast...
Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored.In future, Clarissa, he...
Obviously you would call them Malec, said Beatriz. Are you stupid, Simon?
Look. Jammies.
Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…Thanks, Simon said. I’m gl...
Indeed. Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with the Silent Brothers?Duck pies in the park, sai...
In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.
If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris. (Jace Wayland)
I was trying to go... somewhere. But I kept getting pulled back here. I couldn't stop walking, couldn't stop thinking. About the first time I ever saw you, and how after I couldn't forget you. I wante...
I was hoping they'd put up flyers like they do for lost cats, he said. Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff.
I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats. He said. Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'.You did not just say that.You don't like 'hot...