Perhaps not, said Will, who had ears like a bat's. But I would make a radiant bride.
Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)
My rapier wit hides my inner pain.
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...
It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
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.
Simon, Isabelle interrupted, you're talking like a nerd.She said it almost fondly, but it freaked Simon out more. And I don't know how to be smooth, sexy vampire Simon for you, either!Isabelle's perfe...
More than anything, she wanted to crawl across the bloody sand toward the place where Jace’s body lay, crawl to him and lay down beside him and put her arms around him, even though he was gone.
I don't want tea, said Clary, with muffled force. I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.Unfortunately, said Hodge, we're all ou...
We're not dating, Alec said again.Oh? Magnus said. So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?
Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.