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...
Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name, Will said. You can have mine.Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. Your name?Will took a step toward her...
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...
Pain is only what you allow it to be
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 fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel sl...
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...
Your boyfriend's crazy, he said to Clary.Yeah, but he’s hot, said Clary. So there’s that.
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 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 pushed the bathroom door open to discover Magnus lurking on the other side, clutching a towel in one hand and his glittery hair in the other. He must have slept on it, she thought, because one sid...
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...
Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you.Of course they are, he said. I am stunningly attractive.
She'd been impressed by his looks at first--those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes--but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now. She didn't like boys who looke...
Shotgun! announced Clary as Jace came back around the side of the van.Alec grabbed for his bow, strapped across his back. Where?She means she wants the front seat, said Jace, pushing wet hair out of h...
Simon! The voice was faint, but his hearing caught it over the pop and crackle of glowing flames. The smoke in the corridor had presaged heat; the heat was here now, pressing against him like an oppre...
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