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"She had thought once that there were good people and bad people, that there was a side of light and a side of darkness, but she no longer thought that. She had seen evil, in her brother and her father, the evil of good intentions gone wrong and the evil of sheer desire for power. But in goodness there was also no safety: Virtue could cut like a knife, and the fire of Heaven was blinding."

“Usually I’m remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn’t end in y.”

Clary, you’re an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don’t. It’s your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things.

“She’s the light of my days.”

canon aro & ace character appreciation → raphael santiago (aromantic & asexual) | the shadowhunter chronicles

"Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self."

“She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.”

↳   to love is to destroy and to be loved is to be destroyed.