Losing Magnus now would damage him beyond his current comprehension. He never knew he could feel this way. It was such a foreign feeling to him still but something so unbearably precious that he couldn’t imagine parting with.
Alec Lightwood in When I Find You by Hairi_Esh_Mooncake
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I’ll have you know that my hair is perfect even if the rest of my life isn’t.
Jace Wayland in Sense of Belonging by Ferrero13
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You once told me that the nature of being immortal is continually being able to start over. You told me it’s never easy, and it never gets easier, but it’s a fact of life.
Max Lightwood-Bane in A New Day by heartsdesire456
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He’d done it for the exact reason he told Alec – because in all his time in the league, no one has ever stood up for him the way Alec did in the locker room. His reputation is garbage at the moment anyway, so why should Alec be demonized as well simply for backing up a teammate? But now Magnus almost wishes that he could go back and do it all over again because whatever motivation he had just twenty-four hours ago seems to already pale in comparison to the one he has now. The one that says Alec Lightwood is the type of person that should be protected at all costs. Which is an odd way to feel about a man he hardly knows, especially when that man caused a ten-minute game delay tonight by hitting a guy so hard he cracked a panel of glass along the boards. But it is there regardless, simmering under the surface of Magnus’ skin.
Magnus Bane in Holding the Stick by StarWitness42
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You deserve to be happy. To have someone. I did, for a while, and even though it was a short while…I wouldn’t trade that time for anything. And I wouldn’t want to take it away from someone else.
Lydia Branwell in The Doors to Other Dimensions by hal_incandenza
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Alec held his gaze and he seemed somehow calmer, unflinching, as he stood face-to-face with Magnus’s otherness, his permanence and power. As calm and steady as he’d been when he walked away from the altar at his own wedding to kiss Magnus before his family, the Clave, and everything he’d ever thought he believed in. Always his steadiest, his most decisive, when the situation most called for uncertainty and fear.
Magnus Bane in Force of Nature by Lemur710
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Oh, you silly man…only you could make the immensity of your power into a weakness. You imagine no one could truly love you, simply because no one yet has figured out how.
Ragnor Fell in Force of Nature by Lemur710
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I believe…I do believe marriage is a partnership—I shouldn’t have mocked you for that, I’m sorry…One built on passion, love, trust. I heard it said once that marriage should be a soft place to fall. That you can be more, strive higher, because you know there’s someone to catch you if you fail, someone who will remind you of everything you are. Who can lend you strength when you’ve lost yours.
Magnus Bane in Force of Nature by Lemur710
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Magnus doesn’t know which part of this is making his heart ache more. Is it that Alec, beautiful, innocent Alec, is doing all of this to repair what his parents broke? That he’s carrying such a heavy weight with no one to share it, that he’s expected to throw his life away into a loveless marriage so that the Clave will respect the Lightwood name again? Or is it that Alec has gotten under his skin, that his gentle voice flows through Magnus’ veins where his blood should be, that his heart has come out of hiding for the first time in over a century only to be kicked back into the depths of his chest because Alec won’t ever want Magnus like that?
Magnus Bane in Figure My Heart Out by softlightwood
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Laying there, feeling his own heartbeat syncing with Alec’s, he didn’t think he’d let himself feel it before; feel just how much he’d fallen; just how much Alec meant to him. It was crazy, really. But it was real and there, building in his chest, smothering him. And he was terrified, because he’d been in love before but never, never like this.
Magnus Bane in “Magnus Is…Quite Magical – Part 3” by AlxSteele
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