I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.
I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.
I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.
I have wanted to do this, he said, every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. but you know that. You know. Don't you?
I don't see how Clary is something we have in common,' Simon said, although he did. Nevertheless, this wasn't a conversation he particularly wanted to have with Jace now, or, in fact, ever. Wasn't the...
I did it because I love you! he half-shouted, and then, as if registering the shocked look her face, he said in a more subdued voice, I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I...
I curse you, it said. All who love you will die. Their love will be their destruction. It may take moments, it may take years, but any who look upon you with love will die of it, unless you remove you...
He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infi...
He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.
He took something out of his jacket and handed it to her. It was a long thin dagger in a leather sheath. The hilt of the dagger was set with a single red stone carved in the shape of a rose. She shook...
He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened...
Great, Simon said. Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?You have a mother? Aline looked amazed.
Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti.--Isabelle Lightwood
For so many years she had wondered what her first kiss would be like - if he would be handsome, if he would love her, if he would be kind. She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and de...
Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.'Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.'Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he wa...
Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...
Do you think…He raised his eyebrows. Do I think what?That Valentine might have drowned?Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body, said Simon. That just leads to unhappiness and surprise a...
Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough....
Diana gave her a measured look and ducked down behind the counter. She came up a moment later with a sword about the length of Clary's forearm. What do you think of this?Clary stared at the weapon. It...
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate— She broke off, clearly fighting for control...