Excuse me, Bane? said Roderick Morgenstern. Are you attending? I'm so sorry, Magnus said politely. Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you w...
Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.
Do you think she’ll catch him before he gets to the hall?My mom’s spent her whole life chasing me around, Clary said. She moves fast.
Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung from one bedpost, a lacy white bra from another. Simon a...
Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you.Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. Of course they are, he said. I am stunningly a...
Beati bellicosi. Blessed are the warriors.Good organization, said Magnus. I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scott. Respectable old werewolf family.Alec made an ugly sound in th...
Alec: Catarina made up the Bermuda Triangle?Magnus: Don't be ridiculous, Alexander. That was Ragnor.
Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.
A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness—the beautiful wreckage of mercy.
We are not here just because we have nowhere else; we need nowhere else, because we have the Institute, and those who are in it are our family.
Zhi yin. Jem had told her once that it meant understanding music, and also a bond that went deeper than friendship. Jem played, and he played the years of Will's life as he had seen them. He played tw...
Youre a public menace.You shouldnt be allowed out on your own.said Simon.Jealousy is such an ugly emotion,Lewis.said Jace.
You're sitting on my bed, he said. Did yo think I was under it?
You weaseled your way into my life, Simon Lewis, and I don’t know how or why or even when but it happened, and I kind of hate it but I can’t change it, and here it is
You sound as if you don't mind what happens to it, said Tessa. Won't you miss it here? This place has been your home.His fingers stroked her wrist lightly, making her shiver.You are home for me now.
You snuck up on me, she said. I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?Simon shrugged. Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.
You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors, Magnus said cheerfully.
You know, Clary said, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.Ah, said Jace blithely, that might explain why I so often run into people who seem to dislike...
You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come.
You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of being four years old at the beach, crying when the wind came up and blew away the castle she...