It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

I didn't know," he said. "I didn't know you needed me." Her voice shook. "I always need you

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa—she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody’s?

He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.

Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?' 'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.