I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time. i is my choice, William, and you cannot make it for me.

Isabelle glanced back at them. "They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets." She grinned. "Or," Simon said ,"maybe they're here for the hash browns.

If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239-

You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.

You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.