Not everything that's true needs to be said.

The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat

I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.

Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him.

To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.

Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.