Max Trueblood Quotes

“Max, it turned out, loved a love story. He couldn’t get over the fact that Alec had married a warlock and Isabelle was marrying a mundane-turned-Shadowhunter who, by the way, had once been a vampire.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black

“She thought about Max. Not just about the one who was missing, but the one who was lost forever. She thought about Maryse, the woman she knew and the little girl she could barely imagine, the younger sister who thought her big brother was a superhero who could do no wrong. She thought about the Trueblood line, about the ways it continued and the ways it was severed, a tree with too many branches snapped off. She thought about her own mother, hiding in the mundane world, a part of herself always separate, always hidden. And about herself, hidden in plain sight, unseen by the Shadow World, oblivious to its dangers. She thought about Simon, the closest thing she had to a brother, and how she’d felt that year he’d lost his memories, their lives together erased in a heartbeat. How losing him had felt like losing a part of herself. How she’d searched his expression for a glimmer of recognition, for something in him still tethered to her. A fraction of something, some atom of being that could never truly be lost, that would survive any change, any spell…”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black