clary-waylands:Valentine: “the reason she left me was to protect you. Jonathan she hated, but you,
clary-waylands: Valentine: “the reason she left me was to protect you. Jonathan she hated, but you, she would have done anything to protect you. To protect you from me. She even lived among mundanes, which I know must have pained her. It must have hurt her never to be able to raise you with any of our traditions. You are half of what you could have been. You have your talent with runes, but it’s been squandered by your mundane upbringing” City of Glass -- source link