His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasn't sure she was breathing herself. She slid her own hand across the bedsheet, just far enough...
Jace?Yeah?How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could tell?The elevator arrived with a final groan. Jace unlatched the gate and slid it open. The inside reminded Clary of a...
Well, when was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside a dryer with the clothes, Clary said. The difference is, she didn’t let me.Probably because going around and around in a...
I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you, Jace said. you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute. Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.
The rat, huddled in the hollow of her palms, squeaked glumly. Delighted, she hugged him to her chest. Oh poor baby, she crooned, almost as if he really were a pet. Poor Simon, it'll be fine, I promise...
Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.What about mummi...
He hadn't spoken a word since they'd left the manor except to snap out directions, telling her which way to turn at a fork in the road, or ordering her to skirt a pothole. Even then she doubted if he...
There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I s...
My rapier wit hides my inner pain.
Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. I can't believe you did it! she ex...
You have something on your neck, he observed.Alec's hand flew to his throat. What?Looks like a bite mark, said Jace. What have you been doing all day, anyway?Nothing. Beet red, his hand still clamped...
Yes, Jace said, unable to help himself, I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water water supply - I was covering that stuff in ki...
The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Jace suggested that the cast of Gilligan's Island could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?
Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart, Valentine's voice was soft. One simple motion. Nothing you haven't done before.Jace met his father's stare with a level gaze....
By the Angel, Jace said, looking the demon up and down. I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell.Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth wer...
Clary felt suddenly annoyed. When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?Exsanguinated, said Jace, impr...
We need to talk, she said. All of us. About what we‘re going to do now.I was going to watch , said Jace. Its on next.No you‘re not, said Magnus. He snapped his fingers and the TV went off, releasing a...
You think she’ll be able to talk sense into him? she asked. His sister?If he listens to anyone, it would be her.That’s sweet, said Maia. That he loves his sister like that.Yeah, Simon said. It’s preci...
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