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“Take my hands,” Alec said. “And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to—to keep yourself going.”
“I thought you had to get back to the ship.”
“I have to fight,” said Alec. “But that’s what you’re doing, isn’t it? You’re part of the fight just as much as the Shadowhunters on the ship—and I know you can take some of my strength, (…)Take it. It’s yours.”

Okay, say whatever you wanna say about the pseudo-incest storyline but this line is hilarious:

"I suppose we have only ourselves to blame, your mother and I; having kept you two apart so long, you never developed the revulsion toward each other that would be more natural between siblings."