It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.

My eyes are usually described as golden… and luminous.

Isabelle: Do you want some soup?Jace: NoIsabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup?Jace: No one wants soupSimon: I want some soup!Jace: No, you don’t. You just want to sleep with Isabelle

Hotter than me? –Jace

The morning star isn’t a stat,” Clary said grumpily. It’s a planet. I learned that in astronomy class.””Mundane education is regrettably prosaic,” said Jace.

Yeeeees, tell me eeeeeverything.” I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don’t remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The...

Demon pox, oh, demon pox, Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired.Demon pox, oh, demon pox I had it all along— No,...

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasn’t sure she was breathing herself. She slid her own hand across the bedsheet,...

It means ‘Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234’.

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.

it’s like she knows me already.

All knowledge hurts.

There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of...

Clary,” he said. “You’re Clary. You’re my best friend.

Pain is only what you allow it to be

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

Simon,” said a voice at his shoulder, and he turned to see Izzy, her face a pale smudge between dark hair and dark cloak, looking at him, her expression half-angry, half-sad. “I guess this is...

She turned back to Jace. “Do you have to be so-,” she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable.”Unpleasant?” he finishes for her. “Only at days when my...

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards...

There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half...

Raphael’s hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. “I have no soul,” he said. “But I made you a promise on my mother’s doorstep, and she...

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?””I don’t know,” Magnus said. “Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

This could be the last night of our lives, certainly the last even barely ordinary one. The last night we go to sleep and get up just as we always have. And all I could...

actually am.

You’re a Shadowhunter,” he said. “You know how to deal with injuries.” He slid his stele across the table toward her. “Use it.””No,” Clary said, and pushed the stele back across the table at him.Jace...

Izzy,” said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling.”Jace!” She flew at him and hugged him. Now that was the way sisters were supposed to...

Is your inner vampire different from your…outer vampire?”Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora.”So your inner vampire is Magnus?

Looking at either of them caused a pang in his chest. Looking at both of them started a dull, steady ache.

Not that.

A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane.”Dumbledore would totally win,” said...

She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat’s tail—you screamed like...

I was going to watch Project Runway,” said Jace. “It’s on next.””No, you’re not,” said Magnus. He snapped his fingers and the TV went off, releasing a small puff of smoke as the picture died....

You asked me how I, being immortal, survive somany deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

If you don’t want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I’m an expert. I’ve watched a lot of spy movies.

I can see that,” he said. “Armed to the teeth, as it were.

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Goodness, real goodness, has it’s own sort of cruelty to it.

Do you think Charlotte will let me handle the investigation?””Do you think you can be trusted in Downworld? The gaming hells, the dens of magical vice, the women of loose morals…” Will smiled the way...

Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.

I’m boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?

Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out.No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

Cuando estás leyendo un libro, y sabes que habrá una tragedia; puedes sentir el frió y la oscuridad llegando, ver la red tejiéndose cerca de los personajes que viven y respiran en las páginas. Pero...

I can’t – I’ll chop off my own foot!” “If you’re going to chop off anyone’s foot, chop off Benedict’s,” Will muttered.

They think they’re better than everyone else.””No,” said Jace. “I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.” Kyle looked at Simon. “Does he always talk like...

I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that...

Have you never seen a movie? Read a comic book? That’s always how it starts – just a little temptation, just a little taste of evil, and then BAM, your light saber turns red and...