You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.

Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

I thought you two might be up against it. Benedict Lightwood’s parties have a reputation for danger. When I heard you were here—” “We’re well equipped to handle danger,” Tessa said. Magnus eyed her bosom openly. “I can see that,” he said. "Armed to the teeth, as it were.

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

He'll come back," Simon said again. "For you.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.