From the book The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes (Book Two) | Written by Cassandra Clare
Luke Garroway: Affection doesn't work like that. You can't turn it off, like a tap. Especially if you're a parent.
Jace Herondale: They're not really my parents.
Luke Garroway: There's more to parentage than blood. They've been your parents for seven years in all the ways that matter. Maryse is just hurt.
Jace Herondale: Hurt? She's hurt?
Luke Garroway: She loved Valentine, remember. As we all did. He hurt her badly. She doesn't want his son to do the same. She worries you've lied to them. That the person she thought you were all these years was a ruse, a trick. You have to reassure her.
From the book The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes (Book Two) | Written by Cassandra Clare
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