I’ve never felt so… light.

You asked me who I belong to. I belong to you.

that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off.

Maureen clapped her hands together. “Oh,” she said in her elfin little voice. “It’s pretty.” “Pretty?” Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. “Maureen, what the hell-

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

His eyes were green.

Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.

Your Bracelet,” she said. “Acheronta movebo.’ It doesn’t mean ‘Thus always to tyrants.’ That’s ‘sic semper tyrannis.’ This is from Virgil. ‘Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.’ If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise...

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

Imagine if you were the last Shadowhunter left on earth, imagine if all your family and friends were dead, imagine if there were no one left who even believed in what you were. Imagine if...

Heroes save worlds,” Clary said. “They don’t destroy them.

Take it, and cut your brother’s throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.