I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.

It’s all right to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. “I have wanted to do this,” he said, “every moment of every hour of...

Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?””That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculus.” Will unpeeled himself from the door and made his way toward Tessa where...

He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem’s place to do those things, not his. Not his.” -Will Herondale

[…] “I recall what you said to me once,” Will went on. “That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I...

–,No está enojado? –Estoy contento, –dijo. –Ellos van a ser capaces de cuidar uno del otro cuando yo me haya ido, o por lo menos puedo esperar eso. Él dice que ella no lo ama,...

Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

As dull as Nate Gray is,” Will said, “his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He’s a human.

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?

That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I’m not your boyfriend, Isabelle,” he called out.She went white, Simon was horrified by how badly his words had come out.”I mean, I can’t be your boyfriend, Isabelle,” he said. “I’m not him–that guy who...

The problem was that Simon did not know how to pack like a badass.

All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.

Just don’t kiss me again.

It’s just that you never heard me.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

His eyes were green.

That’s why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don’t say anything, they just nod. The nod means, ‘I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,

I am catastrophically in love with you.

Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a...

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn’t make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie....

Basia coquum,” Simon said. “Or whatever their motto is.””It’s ‘Descensus Averno facilis est.’ ‘The descent into hell is easy,” said Alec. “You just said “Kiss the cook.””Dammit,” said Simon. “I knew Jace was screwing with...

molesting the vampire while he’s too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i’m pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.

Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

You’re my sister,” he said finally. “My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you”—he laughed soundlessly without any humor—”to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with...

The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above...

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.

I was everything I was ever asked to be, and as my reward my life was burned to ash. Do not speak to me of easing my pain. My pain is all I have left....

Who knows your courage better than I?

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

I paid a lot of money once to find it out,” Raphael said.

You know men. We have delicate egos.””I wouldn’t describe Jace’s ego as delicate.””No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos,” Simon admitted.

Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are...

We’re not dating,” Alec said again.”Oh?” Magnus said. “So you’re just that friendly with everybody, is that it?

because Magnus would have turned me into a hat rack.

I know it’s wrong – God, it’s all kinds of wrong – but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.

But that’s not what you said when she walked into the room,” said Simon quietly. “You said, ‘Why didn’t you ever tell me I had a brother?'””I know.” Clary yanked a blade of grass out...

Not if your strong enough,” said Jace firmly. He reached out, and she felt the back of his hand brush her cheek…

I have a plan.” He groaned. “I was afraid of that.””My plans are not terrible.””Isabelle’s plans are terrible.” He pointed a finger at her. “Your plans are suicidal. At best.

I was trying to go… somewhere. But I kept getting pulled back here. I couldn’t stop walking, couldn’t stop thinking. About the first time I ever saw you, and how after I couldn’t forget you....

Imagine if you were the last Shadowhunter left on earth, imagine if all your family and friends were dead, imagine if there were no one left who even believed in what you were. Imagine if...

How’d you get Magnus to let Jace leave?””Traded him for Alec,” Clary said.

Even the Inquisitor’s eyebrows shot up when Magnus strode through the gate. The High Warlock was wearing black leather pants, a belt with a buckle in the shape of a jeweled M, and a cobalt-blue...

Get over here. Sheldon’s had an idea.””Who’s Sheldon?”, said Isabelle.

Alec?” Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was empty but for the two of them. “Did you just- did you just save my life?” Alec knew...

enough coffee to fill one of your larger bathtubs”.

Where am I?” Magnus croaked.”Nazca.””Oh, so we went on a little trip.””You broke into a man’s house,” Catarina said. “You stole a carpet and enchanted it to fly. Then you sped off into the night...