If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.

He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.

Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.

You could have anything else in the world. and you asked for me.

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.