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 glad to be classed with the criminal element.

I have lost everything. Lost everything. Everything. - William Herondale

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—” He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment.

I may be a killer," Jace said, "but I know what I am. Can you say the same?

If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't