Ashley

“I want everyone I care about--I want people I don't even know, I want all of us--to know we have each other's backs so we do not have to fight alone.”
― Cassandra Clare, Born to Endless Night

“Maybe this time was different—maybe this love was different. It felt so different; surely that had to mean something. Maybe the year to come would be a good year for both of them. Maybe this time things would work out the way Magnus wanted them to.
Maybe Alexander Lightwood would not break his heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“It made no sense that his eyes had been drawn to Alec, over and over again. Alec had hung to the back of their little group, had made no effort to attract the eye. He had striking coloring, the rare combination of black hair and blue eyes that had always been Magnus’s favorite, and Magnus supposed that was why he had looked in Alec’s direction at first. Strange to see the coloring that had so distinguished Will and his sister, so many miles and years gone by, and on someone with an entirely different last name . . .”
― Cassandra Clare, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“I do what I want, and damn the consequences.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire