When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her.

I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale.I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can...

He’s very annoying.

What would you prefer? ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .

Maybe you should call him,’ Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.

That’s all true, but I’m not doing it.”Raphael looked incredulous. “Why not?”The words exploded out of Simon. “Are you kidding me? Because you have never done one single thing for me in the entire time...

When He’d told his mother he wanted to go to military school so he could though up, she’d given him a strange look. (Not as strange as if he’d said he wanted to go to...

Simon I’ve been trying to call you, but it seems like your phone is turned off. I don’t know where you are right now. I don’t know if Clary’s already told you what happened tonight....

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles,” noted Will. “Has no one respect for the classics these days?

One minute you’re munching on a faerie plum the next minute you’re running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,’ he added hastily, ‘that this has ever happened to me.

How swiftly you dismiss our love…

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.

And maybe I am a monster. I don’t know the answer to that. But what I do know is that even if there’s demon blood inside me, there is human blood inside me as well....

All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.

They already think it, so what’s the difference, really?

You are a Lightwood,” Cecily said. “You stayed because you were loyal to your family name. It is not cowardice.””Wasn’t it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?”Cecily opened her mouth, then...

And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

I just don’t see why the past has to matter.

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

Look on the bright side,” said Simon, “If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I’m not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

I’m sure Will’s tried,” said Jessamine in a bored tone.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- ‘because God wills it.’ It was the Crusaders’ motto, and they went into battle and were...

We came to an agreement, the duck and I.

when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live...

What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?”Clary was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she...

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers – lovely, but dead.

It—It’s my bedroom!” Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position.

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them...

He’ll come back,” Simon said again. “For you.

I don’t have a reason to lie to you. Not now.’ Jace’s gaze remained steady. ‘And quit baring your fangs at me. It’s making me nervous.”Good,’ Simon said. ‘If you want to know why it’s...

That seems like stealing, doesn’t it?” Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. “Ooh. Mochaccino.” He looked at Magnus. “Did you pay for these?””Sure,” said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered....

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to ‘Jace’ or ‘Hot Stuff

Simon, you stupid idiot! I’m over here! At the window!”Simon jumped to his feet. He doubted his mind would conjure that up.

Not enough,” he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. “If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won’t be enough.

He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.

Simon snorted. “If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not...

Svi umru,draga,reče.Mogla bi se jednostavno naviknuti na to.

Maybe they loved him on his own account,” said Clary.

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it’s you, and I realize now that I won’t be anymore ready to...

Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. “Blood,” he said, half to himself. “I had a dream two nights...

It’s awfully butch for a bookseller.

Maybe Alexander Lightwood would not break his heart.

Will, meet Thammuz, a minor demon from the eighth dimension. Thammuz, meet Will, a minor Shadowhunter from-Wales, was it?””I will rip out your eyes,” hissed the creature. “I will tear the skin from your face.”...

Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information,” Magnus said. “I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not...

She ought to be thrilled.

You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?””A long one?

So you’re a Shadowhunter,’ Nate said. ‘De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.”Was that before or after he tried to eat you?’ Will inquired.

I don’t know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don’t think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.