I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver.

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.