You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.
Yes, he would have done that for Tessa - died to keep the ones she needed beside her - and so would Jem have done that for him or for Tessa, and so would Tessa, he thought, do that for both of them. I...
With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.
Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs, as he'd locked the door, when he'd kissed her--a brilliant, joyous light. And it was going now, fading like the last breath of...
Who am I? he whispered. For years I pretended I was other than I was, and then I gloried that I might return to the truth of myself, only to find there is no truth to return to. I was an ordinary chil...
Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.
When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in your hand.
What? Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.
What's on? Magnus inquired.What Not to Wear, came a familiar drawling voice, emanating from a sprawled figure in one of the armchairs. He sat forward and for a moment Clary thought Jace might get up a...
What do you want? Jace shrugged. Clothes mostly, some weapons. Sebastion shook his head. Too dangerous. We need to get in and out fast. Only emergency items. My favourite jacket is an emergency item,...
What are you doing here anyway?'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?-Clary & Jace, pg.306
We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes.
This is my mother’s wedding,« she said. We’re not going to have sex. At all.But ‘at all’ is my favorite way to have sex.
They all yelled in excitement. Tamara yelled because she was happy. Aaron yelled because he liked it when other people were happy, and Call yelled because he was sure they were going to die.
There's never going to be anyone else for me. That's just how it is.
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...
Then, if you love him, he said quietly, please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.
Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me a...
The weapons room looked exactly the way something called the weapons room sounded like it would look.
The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our l...