Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.
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...
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
Oh, Lord Montgomery, what do you mean to do with me in this bedroom when you have me all alone? An innocent maiden, and unprotected? Is my virtue safe?'I, ah- what?''I know you are a dangerous man. So...
A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.
You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.
Listen to me. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the g...
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...
You have something on your neck, he observed.Alec's hand flew to his throat. What?Looks like a bite mark, said Jace. What have you been doing all day, anyway?Nothing. Beet red, his hand still clamped...
We're not dating, Alec said again.Oh? Magnus said. So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?
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’m—sorry about being a lousy date, Alec muttered.What are you talking about? Magnus asked. You’re a fantastic date. You’ve only been here ten minutes, and I already got half of your clothes off.
Alec isn’t happy, said Magnus, as if she hadn’t spoken.Of course he isn’t, Isabelle snapped. Jace—Jace, said Magnus, and his hands made fists at his sides. Isabelle stared at him. She had always thoug...
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?
And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made out of glass, with the hardness of his expression slowly dissolving into tentative uncertainty. You...
Sebastian) See, there you go. You're always looking at me like that.
Yes, Jace said, unable to help himself, I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water water supply - I was covering that stuff in ki...
The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn't sink when I lost cons...
Simon stepped between them. I’m not going to let you fight with each other.And what are you going to do about it if . . . Oh. Jace's gaze trailed up to Simon’s forehead, and he grinned reluctantly. S...