Jace means, of course, more than one thing by this. He means that everything she’d always been told didn’t exist—vampires, werewolves, faeries, ghosts, and monsters of all shape, size, and intention—did exist after all and that, in fact, the world is full of them. He means that the stories we believe in our hearts—stories in which we are the heroes, stories in which there are good people who rise up to defeat the evil, stories in which there is always hope—are also true. Clary ends City of Bones feeling a true sense of wonder as she flies over New York City, seeing revealed below all the magic
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