miss pretty in punk

His gaze was fixed on the green shrub they’d been sitting beside, with its dozens of shiny closed buds. She started to ask him what she was supposed to be looking at, but he held up a hand to forestall her. His eyes were shining. ❝Wait,❞ he said. The leaves on the shrub hung still and motionless. Suddenly one of the tightly closed buds began to quiver and tremble. It swelled to twice its size and burst open. It was like watching a speeded-up film of a flower blooming: the delicate green sepals opening outward, releasing the clustered petals inside. They were dusted with pale gold pollen as light as talcum.

❝Oh! ❞ said Clary, and looked up to find Jace watching her. ❝Do they bloom every night?❞ ❝Only at midnight,❞ he said. ❝Happy birthday, Clarissa Fray.❞

It’s not too late.

character posters + shadowhunters

Mother, daughter and happy father XD

“come back! even as a shadow, even as a dream.”

Alexander Gideon Lightwood Aesthetic