Aya

“That was what was gone from Julian, she thought, shivering again. The thousands of emotions that had always lived behind his expressions, the love-for her, for his siblings-behind his eyes. Even his worry seemed to have gone, and that was stranger than anything else.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“He was drowning in want, his control shattering like glass blown out of a window by a blast concussion. He could almost imagine he heard the shards raining to the ground beneath them. The broken pieces of his willpower. Of his life.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

“the encouraging look he’d worn for Dru and Tavvy was gone, and he looked hollow and sad. He headed toward the Institute doors.

The false faces we wear for the ones we love, Diana thought. Julian would bleed out for these children and never ask for a bandage in fear that the question would upset them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“His whole life had been built around exerting control over himself, over the mask he showed the world, and now it was cracking.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness