All Lightwoods look the same to me—

Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad

I tell so many lies, sweetheart," he said. "which one specifically?

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy, Magnus..." "I guess I shouldn't have said there wouldn't be no risk to you," Clary said meekly. "That's right," said Simon. "Just remember, when your mothers's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cub, I did it for you.

I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours.