Maureen clapped her hands together. Oh, she said in her elfin little voice. It's pretty. Pretty? Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. Maureen, what the hell
Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us.Sure, said Magnus. And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.Alec looked puzzled. Who's Madonna?Who's...
If you knew how to cook, maybe I eat.
I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide, Clary said. It keeps you from having to give a straight answer.Perhaps so, said the Queen with an amused smile.'...
I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.
I didn't know, he said. I didn't know you needed me.Her voice shook. I always need you
I am Tessa Gray, she said in a low, clear voice. And I believe in the importance of stories.
Hello? Isabelle called from the other side. Simon, is your diva moment over? I need to talk to Jace.
He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.
Aren’t they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time ?Yes, he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him, and I’m worried that if you get into the habit of making out...
And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn't see it, because you'd never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do you think he hated you so much? It wa...
And spare me the jokes about scoring.Dammit, woman, you read my mind, he said. Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dir...
And I don’t see how Sebastian can be all that fond of Jace, either. He was horribly jealous of him all his life. He thought Jace was Valentine’s favorite, added Clary.Not to mention, Magnus noted, tha...
Alex- Alec, if I had given you the impression I had accepted the idea of your death, I can only apologize. I tried to, I thought I had- and yet still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years....
We are Nephilim; we fight our own battles. That's not precisely true, is it? said a velvety voice. It was Magnus Bane, wearing a long and glittering coat, multiple hoops in his ears, and a roguish exp...
You don't get to decide, she said, where I go, or when.I know. His voice was ragged. I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am...
When he faced her again, he had never looked to her so much like one of the Fair Folk. His eyes were full of feral amusement, a carelessness that spoke of a world where there was no human Law. He seem...
Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of...
Sometimes it comes down to a choice, Magnus said. Between saving one person and saving the whole world. I've seen it happen, and I'm selfish enough to want the person who loves me to choose me. But Ne...
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.