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...
She looked at him with loathing. I knew you were crazy, she said. But I didn't realize you were absolutely, spectactularly out of your goddamned mind.
Shadowhunters were brought up to handle anything, weren't they?
Romanian? That's impressive, said Jace. Not many people speak it.Do you? Sebastian asked with interest. Not really, Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. My Romanian is pretty m...
Pain is only what you allow it to be
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot wh...
Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)
Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories.You hate the Silent Brothers, protested Isabelle.I don't hate them, said Jace candidly.I'm...
It doesnt hurt. But my eyes do, said a coolly amused voice from the doorway. Jace. He had come in so quietly that even Simon hadn't heard him, he grinned as Isabelle pulled Simon's shirt down. Molesti...
In that case Tessa said, feeling hot blood rise to her face,I think I would prefer it if you called me by my Christian name, as you do with Miss Lovelace.Will look at her, slow and hard, then smiled....
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 thought... that we could at least talk about books.
I think they’ll probably put that on my gravestone. ‘He Was Heterosexual and Had Low Expectations.
I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you're told. Jace squinted at her. Are those Isabelle's clothes? They look ridiculous on you. I could point out that you burned my clothes...
I can only assume, said Jace, that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.
Hearts are breakable, Isabelle said. And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.
He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.
Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.
Emma —I’m calling. Emma lunged for her phone.No! Julian said, forcefully enough to stop her. You know we can’t tell anyone. About Mark —You’re not going to bleed to death in a car for Mark! No, he sai...