I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.

What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
"It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"
"A long one?

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray