Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you.Of course they are, he said. I am stunningly attractive.
Maybe I want a black eye. Did you think of that?
Mother, Alec’s voice as he interrupted his mother was firm, implacable, and not unkind. Father. There’s something I have to tell you. he smiled at them. I‘m seeing someone.Robert Lightwood looked at h...
Mothers, lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl.… My lord, she said, her eyes shining. I fear I can no longer withstand your m...
My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace
My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me....She couldn't hear him laugh, but she felt his body shake. She wouldn't say that if she knew me, he called back to her confi...
Nice, bah. He's gorgeous. Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.
No, Jace agreed. We don't fly. We break and enter.
Now, Clary said. I don't want to wait. Do you?He didn't reply, just got up off the floor and picked his shirt. He looked at Clary, and almost smiled. If we're going to the Silent City, you might want...
Oh, I'll trust you, the boy told him carelessly. It hardly matters. We are all betrayed sooner or later—all betrayed, or traitors.I see that a flair for the dramatic runs in the blood, Magnus said und...
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.''I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that...
There were also books of fairy tales, The Arabian Nights, James Payn’s work, Anthony Trollope’s Vicar of Bullhampton, Thomas Hardy’s Desperate Remedies, a pile of Wilkie Collins—The New Magdalen, The...
Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
Raphael snapped, This isn't funny.That's why no one's laughing. Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.
She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like Egad! This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much stranger things in his life, and also...
She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breat...
She had wondered, when he’d looked into her eyes and said that he’d had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he’d been looking into for all those years. Who’d been his mirr...
She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up.
She was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
She turned back to Jace. Do you have to be so-, she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable.Unpleasant? he finishes for her. Only at days when my adoptive m...
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