There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
Sometimes, Jem said, our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything...
Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.
Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone.It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dat...
Jordan doesn't really care about the blood, Simon said now. His whole thing is about me being comfortable with what I am. Get in touch with your inner vampire, blah, blah.Clary slid in next to him ont...
It's not gray, Clary felt compelled to point out. It's green.If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood, said Jace.
If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat, Jace muttered.Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. What did you say?Jace edged toward the fridge. I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat.That'...
I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale.I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can teach each other. Find her,...
Bitten? You mean you're a-A werewolf, said the girl. Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole's sister.
What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.
Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
Where am I? Magnus croaked.Nazca.Oh, so we went on a little trip.You broke into a man's house, Catarina said. You stole a carpet and enchanted it to fly. Then you sped off into the night air. We pursu...
There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of.Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. Boo.Luke and Magnus, pg. 285
Thank you, Simon said. It’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocola...
Patience, grasshopper, said Maia. Good things come to those who wait.I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,' said Simon. No wonder I've been so confused all my life.
Not everything is about you, Clary said furiously.Possibly, Jace said, but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.
Mothers,lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl
Jace set what he was holding down on the windowsill and reached out to her. She came to lean against him, and his hand slid up under her t-shirt and rested caressingly, possessively, on the small of h...
Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. I have an invitation. These—she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm—are my friends.Magnus plucked the invitati...
I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.