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

― the boy never cried again.

Cristina made a murmuring noise and pulled Emma into a hug. She patted Emma’s back and Emma hung on to her for dear life and decided there and then that if anyone ever tried to hurt Cristina she would grind them to a pulp and make amusing sand castles out of the remains.

She remembered the first love note Aline had ever written her. The curves of your lips rewrite history. The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. Later, she’d found out it was an Oscar Wilde quote, and had said to Aline, smiling, You’ve got a lot of nerve. Aline had looked back at her steadily. “I know. I do.”

“Say it,” she said. “Say it sober.” “I love you,” he said. “I don’t want you to say it back unless you mean it, but I love you.” She leaned back over him, and pressed the pads of her fingertips against his. “I mean it.”

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

He drew her into him and kissed her. Her hands flew up and fastened in his hair, her fingers tugging and pulling him closer against her. She tasted like cold clear water and he drew on her mouth as if he were incredibly thirsty.

“This is the nature of having of a soul, Kieran, and a heart. We all stumble around in the dark and we cause each other pain and we try to make up for it the best we can. We are all confused.”

“That’s not the spirit of the law, Emma. Remember? The Law is hard, but it is the Law.“ “I thought it was ‘the Law is annoying, but it is also flexible.’”

― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

Aline tugged at her skirt. “Do you - want a baby?” Helen scooted close to Aline, pulling her wife’s cold hands into her lap. “My love,” she said. “I do! Of course! It’s just - I still think of us in exile, a little bit. As if we’re waiting for our real life to truly start up again. I know it’s not logical… .”  

“I don’t want tea,“ said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.” “Unfortunately,” said Hodge, “we’re all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it’s either tea or nothing.”

isabelle lightwood. “girls who run in heels should be feared.”

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“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

“captain america is definitely the most handsome avenger,“ said cristina. “but I like the hulk. i would like to heal his broken heart.” (cristina mendoza rosales)

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”