“Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.”

“Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?"
"Not really," said Simon.
"Magnus is wearing lederhosen."
"And yet, still no.”

“"Wish You Were Here" on Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd, 1975)”

“I wish you were here
I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here”

“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”

“Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.”

“Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo."
"And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.”

“Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except… me?”

“I thought you were dead."
Magnus smiled crookedly. "What, from that scratch?" He glanced down at the reddening jacket in Alec's hand. "Okay, a deep scratch. Like, from a really, really big cat.”

“Maybe warlocks only liked other warlocks. Though Magnus did seem to like Alec quite a lot.”