No one is just their confusion or resentment or fear or angst. People have layers.
Magnus Bane in A Kinder Fiction by MalecCrazedAuthor
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Fic Quotes
‘What was my first gift to you?’ The smile that bloomed across Magnus’ face made the memories come flooding back: the stunned look in Magnus’ eyes, his startled little, ‘Me?’, the way he immediately discarded the dainty gift bag from Tokyo in his eagerness to get to its content. He was so sure the word omamori would come out of Magnus’ mouth, he sucked in a startled gasp when instead he answered, his voice warm with tenderness, ‘Your strength.’
Alec Lightwood and Magnus Bane in Far From Gone by Agnes Joseph
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From the second I saw you at the Institute party, I knew that there was something in me that had been waiting for you.
Alternate Alec Lightwood in Melt Your Headaches (Call it Home) by tomfoolery14
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His hands, warm and familiar, weighed down like anchors by his rings, rest comfortably on Alec’s biceps. Like they belong there. Like all of Alec was made to hold all of Magnus, always.
Alec Lightwood in So Shed Your Skin and Let’s Get Started by iphigenias
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There was something soothing about being surrounded by plants, something bigger than Alec, bigger than anyone. It lived and lasted beyond human years. In the vast empire of nature, Alec was just another organism, another animal. It was liberating. His problems and sorrows, his struggles and torments, they didn’t exist in this reality, and the wind sweeping through the branches and leaves never cast a disapproving glance or whispered doubts and judgments.
The time he’s spent apart from Magnus, however, has felt less like a vague feeling that he’s missing a piece of a puzzle and more like he’s been without one of his limbs, or without the heart that’s beating wildly in his chest. When they kiss, slow and sweet, it’s like Alec is coming home. Like time has unfrozen and allowed his still heart to beat once more.
Alec Lightwood in Marry Me (Today and Every Day) by sunsetveins
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You face your fear: you allow yourself to be vulnerable. You have to be brave enough to put yourself in a situation in which everything could wrong. Because then, when it doesn’t, the reward will be that much more meaningful.
There is no preparing for devastation, there is only enduring.
Magnus Bane in I Promise by sunsetveins
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He knew that he belonged in Magnus’ arms with as much certainty as he knew that he loved his siblings or that looking at the sun would blind him. And Magnus was his sun: warming him up from inside with the gentlest of touches on his hand, his arm; dazzling him with every smile he flashed him, burning and giving him life with every breath he took.
Alec Lightwood in Unlocked by Evil_Keshi
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Simon can’t believe this is the same Alec he met all those months ago. It’s as if someone lifted the weight of the world off his shoulders at some point, and judging by the way he’s looking at Magnus, Simon is pretty sure who it was.
Simon Lewis in Making Life Less Lonely by hufflebee
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