Love takes your choices away.

I care about you," Simon said. "I always cared about you.

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

'Will,' she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. 'Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.'

Clary didn't ask what that was. She was busy trying not to fall over. The ground was heaving up and down under her feet. "Jace," she said, and crumpled into him. He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it every day. Maybe he did.

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing.