You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.

Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est

Clary: "Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?"

Family is more than blood

He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.