James had given his heart to this girl, Magnus thought, and Magnus knew well enough from Edmund and Will what it meant when a Herondale gave his heart away. It was not a gift that could be returned.
Cassandra ClareIt is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings" -Tessa gray
Cassandra ClareHeโs very pretty. For a human.โ โHeโs very broken,โ said Magnus. โLike a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
Cassandra ClareI know what you said! My mother would never have belonged to something like that. Some kind of-some kind of hate group." "It wasn't-," Jace began, but Hodge cut him off. "I doubt," he said slowly, as if the words pained him, "that she had much choice." Clary stared. "What are you talking about? Why wouldn't she have had a choice?" "Because," said Hodge, "she was Valentine's wife.
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