What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors,” Magnus said cheerfully.

If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't

nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed.