“He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you?”

“The blood of Heaven binds you," said the Queen. "Blood calls to blood, under the skin. But love and blood are not the same.""Riddles," Clary said angrily. "Do you even mean anything when you talk like that?""He is bound to you," said the Queen. "But does he love you?”

“The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered.”

“The first one is always the hardest," he said."The first?""The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.”

“I did it because I love you!" he half-shouted, and then, as if registering the shocked look her face, he said in a more subdued voice, "I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”

“You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.”

“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”