Alec Lightwood Quotes

“Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“Alec slid his hand from Jace's arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Just keep it in mind. Your my heart, Magnus Bane. Stay unbroken. for me.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Lost Book of the White

“You could give me the past, he said a little sadly, But Alec is my future.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“Straight people,' Alec declared. 'Why can't they control themselves?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I've lived a long time,' Magnus said. 'So many years, and no, it doesn't feel like enough. I won't lie and say it does. I want to live on - partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.'
Alec looked stricken. 'We'll die together,' he said. 'Let me stay at least, with you.'
'You have to go back. You have to go back to the world.'
'I don't want the world. I want you,' Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“You’re staring,” Alec said. His voice was clipped, disapproving. “At that girl. With the red hair.”

"The one with the dark-haired friend?” Jace said. “I am not.”

“If you weren’t, you wouldn’t know she had a dark-haired friend,” said Alec, who was terminally literal. “And besides, he’s probably her boyfriend."

“He’s not,” Jace said immediately, and then realized he had no reason for assuming that, and also shouldn’t be speculating about the love lives of mundane”
― Cassandra Clare, We Jace you a Clary Xmas

“What’s this?” Alec said, looking baffled.

“It’s a girl,” Jace said. He moved closer to the redhead, who stood with her feet braced apart, her hands on her hips, clearly with no intention of being scared away. He was vaguely aware of her loose shirt, unbuttoned over a tank top. Of the pulse at her throat and the rise of her breath. “A mundie girl,” he said. She was definitely, definitely not a demon. Her skin was lightly freckled, her eyes green mixed with gold. “And she can see us."

“Of course I can see you,” she snapped. “I’m not blind.”
― Cassandra Clare, We Jace you a Clary Xmas

“Knock her out,” Alec muttered, under his breath. “Just . . . clonk her on the head with something."

“Just go,” Jace said to the girl. “Get out of here, if you know what’s good for you.”

But she only planted her feet harder. He could see the look in her eyes, like exclamation points: No! No!”
― Cassandra Clare, We Jace you a Clary Xmas

“Alec was sitting a little apart, staring at the screen of his phone with an expression of intense concentration.
Jace threw himself down next to his parabatai. “I’ve heard that if you stare at those things enough, they’ll ring.”
“He’s been texting Magnus,” said Isabelle, glancing over with a disapproving look.
“I haven’t,” Alec said automatically.
“Yes, you have,” said Jace, craning to look over Alec’s shoulder. “And calling. I can see your outgoing calls.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I do hope you said a proper farewell to your child of the Angel, Magnus Bane,' she murmured. 'I can't imagine you two are going to the same afterlife.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Magnus asked. 'I'd say it was a pleasure to meet you, but it wasn't. Not that you aren't all fairly charming, and as for you-' He dropped a glittery wink at Alec, who looked astounded. 'Call me?' Alec blushed and stuttered and probably would have stood there all night if Jace hadn't grasped his elbow and hauled him toward the door”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“You have something on your neck,' he observed. Alec's hand flew to his throat. 'What?' 'Looks like a bite mark,' said Jace. 'What have you been doing all night, anyway?' 'Nothing.' Beet red, his hand still clamped to his neck, Alec started down the corridor. Jace followed him. 'I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head.' 'And ran into a vampire?' 'What? No! I fell.' 'On your neck?' Alec made a noise, and Jace decided the issue was better dropped.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“She thought of the satisfaction it would have brought Magnus to say the words out loud, to acknowledge what the truth was, and the fact that he hadn't said them - had let Alec go on lying and pretending - because that was what Alec wanted, and Magnus cared about Alec enough to give him that. Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way. And if you're blowing off Magnus, it's not because of me. It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.'
'You love me?'
'You stupid Nephilim,' Magnus said patiently, 'Why else am I here? Why else would I have spent the past few weeks patching up all your moronic friends every time they got hurt? And getting you out of every ridiculous situation you found yourself in? Not to mention helping you win a battle against Valentine. And all completely free of charge!”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes wide, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth. Maia looked perplexed. 'Wait a second,' she said. 'Do we all have to do that, too?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Alec,' Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend's shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring angrily at the floor. 'Are you okay?'
Alec looked at him. 'Who are you again?'
Magnus gave a little gasp; he looked - for the first time since Simon could remember - actually unnerved. It lasted only a moment, but it was there. 'Alexander,' he said.
'Too soon to joke about the happy memory thing, I take it,' Alec said.
'You think?' Magnus's voice soared.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“Do you remember, the night of the battle on Valentine's ship, when I needed some of your strength?'
'Do you need it again now?' Alec said. 'Because you can have it.'
'I always need your strength, Alec,' Magnus said, and closed his eyes as their intertwined fingers began to shine, as if between them they held the light of a star.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“I think they'll probably put that on my gravestone. 'He was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I want to share my life with you, and that means today, and the future, and all of my past, if you want it. If you want me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“I'm a demon,' he said. 'I'll curse a mermaid. I'll curse a cocker spaniel. I don't care about anything.”
― Cassandra Clare, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“If Jace was gold, catching the light and the attention, Alec was silver: so used to everyone else looking at Jace that that was where he looked too, so used to living in Jace's shadow that he didn't expect to be seen. Maybe it was enough to be the first person to tell Alec that he was worth being seen ahead of everyone in a room, and of being looked at longest.
And silver, though few people knew it, was rarer than gold.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“It's a classic love story. I hit on him at a party, he asked me out, then we fought an epic magical battle between good and evil side by side, and now we need a vacation.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Seize the day, not the demons.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Shadowhunters were so useful when travelling. Magnus planned to never leave home again without one.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“It's so weird that there's an angel Muriel,' Magnus commented. 'Muriel sounds like a disapproving piano teacher.' He held up an imaginary seraph blade and intoned at it. 'My great-aunt Muriel.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Magnus had always had a wanderer's heart. Over the centuries, he had adventured in so many different places, always looking for something that would fulfill his restless hunger. He never realized how all the pieces could fall together, how home could be somewhere and someone. He belonged with Alec. His wandering heart could rest.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Helen's eyes were shut. " 'Go to Europe, Helen,' they said. 'Can't be a homebody forever, Helen. Get out of L.A., soak up some culture. Maybe date somebody.' Nobody said, 'A cult and its demons will chase you around Europe, and then a lunatic Lightwood will lead you to your doom.' This is the worst travel year anybody has ever had."
"Well, I guess I'll see you sometime," said Aline, looking stricken.
"I'm leaving," said Alec.
Helen sighed and made a gesture of despair with her seraph blade. "All right, lunatic Lightwood. Lead the way. Let's go get your man.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Max, it turned out, loved a love story. He couldn’t get over the fact that Alec had married a warlock and Isabelle was marrying a mundane-turned-Shadowhunter who, by the way, had once been a vampire.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black