“"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."”

“You know, there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.”

“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.”

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

“"Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat."”

“Is this the part where you say, "If I hurt her, you'll kill me?"”

“We live and breathe words. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt, I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted, and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he had learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”

“And I'm supposed to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married? And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

“And now I'm looking at you, 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), but Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“There is no pretending. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?”

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?”

“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”