“I love him to my bones, but suddenly I’m wondering what I might have been without him.”
“There is that. I might have better luck telling him I’m in love with him. Jace thinks everyone’s in love with him anyway.”“But I,” said Clary, “actually am.”
“I loved him, and no matter what my reasons were to live without him, I knew it wasn’t what I wanted.”
“I wanted to tell him I loved him, that I'd always loved him, & that life-& I- had never been the same without him there.”
“Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.”
“Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you.”