We live and breathe words.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants

Being a Silent Brother is life, Clary Fray. But if you mean I remember my life before the Brotherhood, I do. Clary took a deep breath. “Were you ever in love? Before the Brotherhood? Was there ever anyone you would have died for?” There was a long silence. Then: Two people, said Brother Zachariah. There are memories that time does not erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.