What’s the Nephilim motto again? ‘We are dust and shadows,’ said Ty, not looking up from his book.Some of us are very handsome dust, Jace added
Wherever we are, we are as one
To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's ha...
Perhaps not, said Will, who had ears like a bat's. But I would make a radiant bride.
Lord, you're Irish, said Will. Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce...
It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.
Dinnertime! It was Isabelle, standing framed in the door of the library. She still had the spoon in her hand, though her hair had escaped from its bun and was straggling down her neck. Sorry if I'm in...
But—but... Will sputtered.Oh, leave it, said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. She annexed my plan! Will, Tessa said firmly. Do you care more about the plan being enacted...
It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.
And now, Eric yelled into his mircophone, we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna...
Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.
The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.
The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden, alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering behind his lids. Not Jace's face, for a change. The eyes set in t...
He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. You want to go on a date?Caught off guard, she stammered. A wh-what?A date, Jace repeated. Often 'a...
Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
And you won’t leave me?No. Alec said. No, we won’t ever leave you. You know that.Never. Isabelle took his hand, the one Alec wasn’t holding, and pressed it fiercely. Lightwoods, all together. She whis...
You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.''No I mean it. You don't look good.''This is from a...
Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
Jem? he said. 'It is you, James?''Who else?' Jem's voice.
Clary wasn't sure what she'd expected -exclamations of delight, perhaps a smattering of applause. Instead there was silence, broken only when Jace said, Somehow, I thought it would be bigger.Clary loo...