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October 6 - October 13, 2025
“Mostly extinct,” he said, his voice trembling with rage, “is NOT EXTINCT ENOUGH.”
He had lost weight, she thought, and was about to say so when he leaned down and kissed her.
“Affection doesn’t work like that.” Luke shook his head. “You can’t turn it off, like a tap. Especially if you’re a parent.”
“I don’t want to be a man,” said Jace. “I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can’t confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.”
“Yes,” Jace said, unable to help himself, “I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth’s water supply—I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we’re all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe.”
You may look like an angel, Jonathan Morgenstern, but I know exactly what you are.”
“Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.
“You are mortal; you age; you die,” the Queen said dismissively. “If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?”
His arms slid around her, his hands knotting in her hair, and the kiss stopped being gentle and became fierce, all in a single moment like tinder flaring into a blaze. Clary heard a sound like a sigh rush through the Court, all around them, a wave of noise, but it meant nothing, was lost in the rush of her blood through her veins, the dizzying sense of weightlessness in her body.
“Was that good enough?” he called, turning to face the Queen and the courtiers behind her. “Did that entertain you?” The Queen had a hand across her mouth, half-covering a smile. “We are quite entertained,” she said. “But not, I think, so much as the both of you.”
growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.”
As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
“You might want to lie down,” Magnus advised. “I find that helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”
“I think the Queen meant I can draw runes that are more powerful than ordinary runes. And maybe even create new ones.”
You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.
“I’d say it’s been nice meeting you all, but, in fact, it hasn’t. It’s been quite awkward, and frankly, the next time I see a single one of you will be far too soon.”
“No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”
“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.”
“Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.”
