She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

But-Jace what are you doing?' 'Finishing my shower. And if you‘ve made me run through all the hot water, I‘ll be very annoyed.

And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--

It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.