You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.

By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn’t working. ~pg. 317~

Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Stop it." Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake's edge. "Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If we don't stick together in the Seelie Court, we're dead." "But I haven't-," Clary started. "Maybe you haven't, but the way you let those two act..." Isabelle indicated the boys with a disdainful wave of her hand. "I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you.

It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others