City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.”

“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”

But if you can’t tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”

Trace Wayland. Magnus was fairly certain that was the name, but Wayland had reminded Magnus inexplicably of Will Herondale, and Magnus didn’t want to think about Will. He knew the best way to spare himself heartbreak was not to think about lost friends and not to get mixed up with Shadowhunters again.