“Look. In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he's always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there."
"Where's that?”

"Wherever you were."
Luke and Clary, pg. 210-211
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

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