Love makes liars of us all.

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

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