Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.
Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on...
Charlotte leaned forward across the table. The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they? You know about the Magister. Tessa said. They said they were pre...
Cecily, are you doing? Will demanded, interrupting Gideon; he knew he sounded like a distracted parent, but he didn't care. Cecily has slid her blade into her belt and appeared to be trying to climb...
Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt smeared with dried blood and filthy mud...Admiring...
But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering
But he would understand, he said dazedly. If we explained it to him. If we told him…he would understand.She made her voice as cold as she could. As calm. Told him what?Will only looked at her. There h...
Belatedly, she realized something else. Do you... have anything?He didn't seem to have recovered from her last comment. But do you mean—wait, do I have what?She slitted her eyes at him. Something impo...
Because that was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how...
Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale, he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.
As Oscar Wilde once said, To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.
And what if I'm the one who kills him? My heart is your heart, he said, My hands are your hands.
And then there was you. You changed everything I believed in. You know that line from Dante that I quoted to you in the park? 'L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle'?Her lips curled a little at the...
And then she said nothing else, for Henry put his arms around her and kissed her. Kissed her in such a way that she no longer felt plain, or conscious of her hair or the ink spot on her dress or anyth...
And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous.Good, Simon said. if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood.It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury. Jace raised his left hand.
And of course you wouldn't be going alone,' Will said impatiently. 'I would go with you. I wouldn't let anything happen to you.
And now I’m looking at you, he said, and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger that anyone else ever has....
And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done be...
And maybe you should stop pitying yourself, he said. Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.
And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa—she loves you. What sort of...