Jace shook his head. I don’t care if I did just set myself on fire, he said. I’m not hugging you.
Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?
It's too late, she said.Don't say that. His voice was half a whisper. I love you, Tessa. I love you.
It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.
Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.
If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things.I like anyone killing things, especially me. he said with a smile.
I don't want the world. I want you.
He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.
Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.
Do not seek revenge and call it justice.
Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can...
Clary glanced past him and asked, Where's Magnus?He said it would be better if he didn't come. Apparently he and the Seelie Queen have some kind of history.Isabelle raised her eyebrows.Not that kind o...
Brother Zachariah, Isabelle said. Months January through December of the Hot Silent Brothers Calendar. What’s he doing here?There’s a Hot Silent Brothers Calendar? said Alec. Do they sell it?
All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.
We seemed to be trapped in an episode of One Life To Waste. It's all very dull.
You tried to drink the East River,Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin.
You stole a boat, she snapped. What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic?
You never called me back, he said. I called you so many times and you never called me back.Magnus looked at Alec as if he'd lost his mind. Your city is under attack, he said. The wards have been broke...
We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I’m secure in my sexuality.