Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.

She'd been impressed by his looks at first--those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes--but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now. She didn't like boys who looked as if they never got mad about anything. In Isabelle's world, rage equaled passion equaled a good time.

You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.