It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.
Dear Alec and Magnus, I known we're not really close, but Isabelle just came by to drop off a pleated orange velvet tux that she claims I will be wearing to your wedding. Is this true, and if so, why orange? -Simon
How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.
Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.
It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.
Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.
Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.