I don’t know why I ever helped you.” “Because you like broken things.

Staring at him the way she might stare at a beloved place she was not sure she would ever see again, trying to commit the details to memory, to paint them on the backs of her eyelids that she might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.

Poor you, you have two cute girls vying for your love. Your life is hard.

Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire.

The law is hard but it is the law.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.