eve

"Céline, younger than the rest of the Circle, with the fragile, delicately pretty features of a porcelain doll, had been trailing their group like a lost puppy. It was obvious to anyone with eyes that she’d fallen hard for Stephen, but he was a lost cause, pledged to Amatis for life. She’d picked Lucian as her consolation prize, but it was just as obvious that Lucian had no romantic interest in anyone but Jocelyn Fairchild"

"Céline, younger than the rest of the Circle, with the fragile, delicately pretty features of a porcelain doll, had been trailing their group like a lost puppy. It was obvious to anyone with eyes that she’d fallen hard for Stephen, but he was a lost cause, pledged to Amatis for life. She’d picked Lucian as her consolation prize, but it was just as obvious that Lucian had no romantic interest in anyone but Jocelyn Fairchild"

I just realized that Clary and Jocelyn are dad's side of the family for Ash

jace never stood a chance. you had valentine telling him to be loved is to be destroyed in his ear and then you had his mother's genes screaming the exact same thing in his cells like bro was doomed whichever way you looked at it 😟 it's a miracle the lightwoods and clary were able to drag him out of that pit of absolute dispair

Day 3 of editing the Circle

the circle: the chain