“The closer he was the less confident I was.”
“But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards that cannot be easily fit back together. I envy mundanes their resilience sometimes.”
“I am the girl you fool around with, before you meet the love of your life.”
“Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.”
“I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.”
“Someone once told her there s a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it s half as long as the time you ve been together. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak.”
“I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.”
“To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not form a heart.. To do that, all we needed was to look each other in the eye. But you looked away.”
“Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart,” she said finally.”
“A jagged stone existed where her heart had been.”