The Clave would let you do anything you wanted. Look, everyone loves you.” He gestured out at the room full of Shadowhunters. They were all cheering as Robert spoke, some of them wiping away tears....

Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone.””It was a metaphor. He’s a Shadowhunter, he’s a Lightwood, and he’s into blonds. He’s a dating...

Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved...

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons – these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world – it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives…

Woolsey bites on occasion

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,

I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.

Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.

To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been...

Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.

All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone...

Hey,” said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, “do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?””Not really,” said Simon. “Magnus is wearing lederhosen.””And yet,...

You’re a public menace. You shouldn’t be allowed out on your own.

I need a bodyguard.”Simon eyed him. “Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.

Isabelle. Simon’s mouth moved to form the shape of her name, pressing it into his pillow. He’d told himself he wasn’t going to think about her, not until he was really getting somewhere in the...

Mothers,lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

Look. Jammies.

We have a name,” said Jace. “Magnes B-“”Shut up.” Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured.”Jesus,” he rubbed his arm. “What’s your problem?

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” – Jem Carstairs

—Jem es la mejor parte de mí. —Entonces, ,qué soy yo? —Eres mi debilidad. —Y Tessa es tu corazón.

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you’d have forever.

Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.

Maybe that was why she couldn’t cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when...

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you...

I think everything that happened in Idris-Valentine, Max, Hodge, even Sebastian-I kept shoving it all down, trying to forget, but it’s catching up with me. I… I’ll get help. I’ll get better. I promise.” “You...

It’s not gray,” Clary felt compelled to point out. “It’s green.””If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you’d have died in childhood,” said Jace.

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!’ He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

I am a man, and men do not drink pink drinks. Now, be gone, woman, and fetch me something brown.” Jace said. “Brown?” said Isabelle.”Yes. Brown. It’s a manly color. See? Alec is wearing it.”...

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn’t stopped believing in God. I’d just stopped believing God cared. There might be a...

If you love someone, you’re not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie–not really dead but not really alive, either.

Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. “How much of that did you hear?””Enough to gather that we’re going to a...

We live and breathe words.

Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.

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

Even if you haven’t had the exclusivity conversation, they’re still going to be mad if they find out you’re dating someone they know and you haven’t mentioned it. It’s a dating rule.” “Well, how am...

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self,...

Of course, everyone’s going to freak out when you show up at school.””Freak out? Why?””Because you’re so much hotter now than when you left.” She shrugged. “It’s true. Must be a vampire thing.”Simon looked baffled....

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn’t realize was precious until you lost it.

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They’re peculiar that way.

Actually,” said Jace, “I prefer to think that I’m a liar in a way that’s uniquely my own.

She turned and looked at him. “Ducks?” she said again.A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. “I hate ducks. Don’t know why. I just always have.

Lost in thought, it took her several moments to realize that Jace had been saying something to her. When she blinked at him, she saw a wry grin spread across his face. “What?” she asked,...

Now this is really going to impress Valentine.””I don’t know,” Clary said. “Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the Aquatruck.””If you don’t like it, Nephilim,” came Magnus’s voice, faintly, from...

They had just showed up, Amatis had said. Which meant Simon had spent the entire night at Isabelle’s. She stared at him. He didn’t look any different.

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

To love is to destroy

Clary was trying not to think about the fact that it had been three days since she’d seen Magnus, and he’d sent no word at all. Or the fact that there was really nothing stopping...

You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn...