How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.

Stop. I don't do you favors, Alec. I do things for you because - well, why do you think I do them?" Something rose up in Alec's throat, cutting off his response. It was always like this when he was with Magnus. It was as if there were a bubble of pain or regret that lived inside his heart, and when he wanted to say something, anything, that seemed meaningful or true, it rose up and choked off his words. "I need to get back to the ship," he said, finally.

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

“ It’ s a lot to process,” she said. “ What Sebastian said, what happened last night, everything. I need to sleep, but I’ m too keyed up. When I was young and I couldn’ t sleep, my mother used to read to me to relax me.” “ A nd I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?

She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong