You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward

They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.

Oh God.” said Magnus, “they’re dead. They’re all dead!

I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?

Now this is really going to impress Valentine." "I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the Aquatruck." "If you don't like it, Nephilim," came Magnus's voice, faintly, from the truck cab, "you're welcome to see if you can walk on the water.