The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.
Clary wasn't sure what she'd expected -exclamations of delight, perhaps a smattering of applause. Instead there was silence, broken only when Jace said, Somehow, I thought it would be bigger.Clary loo...
Simon stepped between them. I’m not going to let you fight with each other.And what are you going to do about it if . . . Oh. Jace's gaze trailed up to Simon’s forehead, and he grinned reluctantly. S...
It was Eric's voice not Simon's, on the recorded message. Ladies, ladies he said. Though it was the millionth time she’d heard the recording, Clary couldn't help rolling her eyes. If you've reached t...
Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, ‘I’m the most elite warrior!’ ‘ No, I’m the most elite warrior!’ And today...
Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. Filthy inside and out.
It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define...
If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat, Jace muttered.Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. What did you say?Jace edged toward the fridge. I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat.That'...
Facilis descensus AvernoNoctes atque dies patet atri ianua DitisSed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad aurasHoc opus labor est
Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
He's not warlock.
As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.
What's this? he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.It's a girl, Jace said,recovering his composure. Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Y...
I'm Magnus Bane. he went on in a soothing tone, stretching out his ringed hands. Blue sparks had begun to dance between them like bioluminescence dancing water. I'm the warlock who's here to cure you....
You know, Clary said, most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.
Simon! Clary shouted, and seized his arm. What? Simon looked alarmed.I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive...
Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.
I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?"
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.