So, ninety-five percent of the time. She craned her head back to look up at time. Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent? Oh, you know, the usual--demons I might kill, runes I need to lear...
Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked?Jace: I was following you.Simon: Is this th...
Simon rolled his eyes. It’s a good thing we know the person who’s dating Magnus Bane, he said. Otherwise, I get the feeling we’d all just lie around all the time wondering what the hell to do next. Or...
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't thin...
Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows Boo, he said. Jace was grinning. Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you? Alec thought for a moment. Spiders, he said. Clary turned to...
Love is a contradiction.
Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the...
It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.
It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know, Simon was getting fed up. Look, did you actually ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I'm something in a pet...
I've mastered many thing's in my life. Navigating the streets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighti...
I should have guessed you were Jace's sister, he said. You both have the same artistic talent.Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. Jace can draw?Nah. When Alec smiled, his...
I did not make a pie, Alec repeated, gesturing expressively with one hand, for three reasons. One, because I do not have any pie ingredients. Two, because I don’t actuallyknow how to make a pie.He pau...
I couldn't keep a fish alive, she said. I kill plants just by looking at them.I suspect I would have the same problem, Mark said, eyeing the fish. It is too bad - I was going to name it Magnus, becaus...
Heroes aren't always the ones who win, she said. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.
Hearts are breakable, Isabelle said. And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.
He gazed amusedly down the table at Tessa. You’re the shape-changer, aren’t you? he said. Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say. Tessa swallowed and looked him straight in the...
Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.
Even the trip throught the Portal had not disarranged Magnus's hair spikes. He tugged on one proudly. Check it out, he said to Isabelle.Magic?Hair gel. $3.99 at Ricky's.
Don't tell me, Jace said, Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out o...