That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and his great curse.

Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them traitors, so many of them brash, wild creatures consumed by their passions, whether it be love or hate.

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.