#lightwood gays wishing they had the herondale charisma

[khaleesiofalicante]

“He felt his stomach swoop inside him like a bird diving for a fish. (Then he wished he’d come up with a better mental analogy, but one either had a poetic turn of mind, like James, or one didn’t.)”

- Thomas Lightwood, Chain of Thorns

“Alec knew he ought to say something like, of course, because I'm a Shadowhunter and that's what we do, or that's my job. Jace would have said something like that. Jace always knew the right thing to say. But the words that actually came out of Alec's mouth were quite different and sounded petulant, even to his own ears.”

- Alec Lightwood, City of Glass