It's so dark, she said lamely. You want me to hold your hand?Clary put both her hands behind her back like a small child. Don't talk down to me.Well, I could hardly talk up to you. You're too short.
It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury. (Jace)
It's Will, she said. He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room.Charlotte looked puzzled. How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of...
It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks li...
It had been June, the bright hot summer of 1937, and with the curtains thrown back the bedroom had been full of sunlight, sunlight and her and Will's children, their grandchildren, their nieces and ne...
It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice. She raised her eyes to the Angel’s. Jace, she said.
In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over—a sharedlove of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painfulpleasure of burning Marks, the thought-numbing swiftness of battle.When Ale...
In all Gabriel’s life he could not remember his brother giving even the prettiest of Shadowhunter girls a second glance. Yet he looked at this scarred mundane servant as if she were the sun rising. It...
In D&D, my first move, when you're dealing with an opposing army like that, would be to lure away a group of them-say five-and take their clothes.Is this so they have to go back to the fortress naked...
If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over.
If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.
I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?
I wouldn't change it, Simon said. I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. B...
I would never date a girl who insisted that I cut you out of my life. It’s non-negotiable. You want a piece of all this fabulousness? He gestured at himself. Well, my best friend comes along with it....
I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe? He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw something long an metallic glinting against the inside lining.No wonde...
I was going to kill someone today. I just wasn’t sure who when I woke up this morning. I do love mornings. So full of possibilities.
I tell so many lies, sweetheart, he said. which one specifically?
I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.
I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them to be real. —Oscar Wilde
I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because t...