Isabelle.It was always Isabelle.

I’ve never felt so… light.

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.

What’s the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?” inquired Jessamine.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?” asked Jace.”It was Simon who promised you...

I guess it’s true what they say,” observed Jace. “There are no straight men in the trenches.””That’s atheists, jackass,” said Simon furiously. “There are no atheists in the trenches.

You have something on your neck. What Looks like a bite mark, what were you doing out all night, anyway? Nothing. I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head. And ran into...

If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I’ll let you know,” Simon was getting fed up. “Look, did you actually ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare...

The best lies are based on thetruth, at least in part

Will sat where he was, gazing at the silver bowl in front of him; a white rose was floating in it, and he seemed prepared to stare at it until it went under. In the...

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. “Take it.”Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem’s face. A dozen awful things he...

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

Our fathers were demons,’ Catarina said. ‘Our mothers were heroes.

Wherever Jordan’s going – and I do believe we all go somewhere – think of it as the light that will bring him home.

My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.’ Dante was trying to explain faith, I think, as an overpowering love, and maybe it’s blasphemous,...

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

What they had wasn’t ordinary, or subject to the ordinary rules of relationships and breakups. They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until...

Sophie has a gift,” she said. “She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not...

Jace: Herondale, on the other hand, is melodic. Dulcet, one might say. Think of the sound of ‘Clary Herondale.’Clary: Oh, my god, that sounds horrible.Jace: We all must sacrifice for love.

Don’t touch any of my weapons without my permission.””Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,” Clary muttered.”Selling them on what?”Clary smiled blandly at him. “A mythical place of great magical power.

I’m not an angel, Jace,” she repeated. “I don’t return library books. I steal illegal music off the internet. I lie to my mom. I am completely ordinary.

She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone.”Sorry about that, guys!” he yelled. “All right. I’m Eric, and this is my homeboy Matt on the drums. My first poem is called...

and she dumped him too. At least she said she was going to. Tough break, man.

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

There were some feelings you never forgot.

She had thought once that there were good people and bad people, that there was a side of light and a side of darkness, but she no longer thought that. She had seen evil, in...

You said there was nothing in the world you wanted” The Queen’s eyes glittered. “When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?

Sorry. Are we twelve now? I don’t recall saying anything to Isabelle . . .

Instead of replying, Alec reached down and took Magnus’s hands. Magnus let Alec pull him to his feet, a questioning look in his eyes. Before he could say anything, Alec drew him closer and kissed...

And therefor,” said Magnus “We must go.” Will blinked at him. “Go where?””Don’t worry about that right now, my love.”Will blinked again. “Pardon?

Magnus held up a warning finger. “Don’t overstep yourself, biscuit,” he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.”Biscuit?” said Simon.”Believe it or not, he’s called me that before,” Clary said.

If you do not intend to help us,” she said, “then leave this house. Dawn is coming.””I am not a vampire.” Magnus said. “I shall not disappear with the light””You will if I kill you...

Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will’s voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son’s laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting...

Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.””I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,” said Simon.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

Excellent. I’ve been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice.” He flipped the book open to the front page, where the title was printed in ornate script. Across from it was a long dedication,...

The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to...

Love potions? For Will ‘erondale? ‘Tain’t my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you ‘as got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.””No,” Will said, a little desperation...

Nice work in their, Herondale, setting the place on fire,” Gabriel observed. “Good thing we were there to clean up after you, or the whole plan would have gone down in flames, along with the...

I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their colour over all the passing years, and looked at Jem and then Tessa,...

Dear me,” said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you?

…If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left–

I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He’s my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You’re both crazy walking arsenals.

We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I’m secure in my sexuality.

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

What would you know about it?” he said. “Love, I mean.”Dorothea folded her soft white hands in her lap. “More than you might think,” she said. “Didn’t I read your tea leaves, Shadowhunter? Have you...

There she is.” Alec spotted his sister and waved her over, looking relieved. “Over here. And watch out for the phouka.””Watch out for the phouka?” Jace repeated, glancing toward a thin brown-skinned man in a...

For that was love, wasnt it–to burn bright in someone else’s eyes?