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“Alastair joon,” she said. “The child will be lucky, but not because our father is dead. Because it will have you for a brother.”
“That love is complicated,” said Cordelia. “That it lies beside anger and hatred, because only those we truly love can truly disappoint us.”
“Thank you,” Alastair whispered. He knew he had to stop staring at Thomas, but he wasn’t quite sure how to manage it, and in a moment, it didn’t matter anyway. Without another word, Thomas turned on his heel and strode quickly away.
One can reach peace on one’s own, though it is difficult—but Cordelia has you. That will make it easier.”
Hope is a prison, truth the key that unlocks it.
“It does not always do good, to dig up the past.”
He exchanged a long look with James. It said all the things Matthew would never say in front of all these people, no matter how he cared for them: it said that he loved James, that he would be here all night, if James needed him, that he believed in James as he believed in himself.
“Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to, Lightwood,”
“I know, but sometimes I think that it is much harder to lose someone who we are on bad terms with than it is to lose someone with whom all is well.”
And in the moment, Thomas could only think that if he had to be arrested for murder for this to happen, it had been worth it.
She strode off, returning to the thick of the battle, pausing only to wink at Thomas as she hurried by. “That was unexpectedly satisfying,” said Christopher.
She was like starlight, Ariadne thought: it seemed warm and radiant and near, but was in truth uncountable miles away.
Ariadne did not stay to watch Anna leave; she did not think she could endure it, so she did not see Anna walk only a short distance before sinking down onto the front steps of a neighboring house. Flicking the half-burned cheroot into the snow, Anna put her head into her hands and shook violently, dry-eyed and silent, unable to catch her breath.
“I suppose,” James said, “because angels require you to have faith. They want us to believe in them without seeing them. That is, I think, what faith is meant to be. We are to believe in them as we believe in all things intangible—goodness, and mercy, and love.”
It is natural to believe that you can outrun your miseries. There have been times I have fled mine halfway across the world. But the truth is that sorrow is fleet and loyal. It will always follow you.”
“You cannot save people who do not want to be saved,” said Magnus. “You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.” He paused. “It’s something to keep in mind as we go to help your sister.”
