Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

What’s this?” he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.”It’s a girl,” Jace said,recovering his composure. “Surely you’ve seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle...

And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland—Herondale—Lightwood—whatever you want to call yourself. I don’t care. I love you and I wil always love you, and pretending it could be any other...

Your friend’s poetry is terrible,” he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. “What?””I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.

I’ve got the Mark of Cain,” said Simon. “That means nothing can kill me, right?””You can kill yourself,” Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. “As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if...

Caliph Vathek and his dark hordeAre bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!Your faith in me will be restored—Unless this token you find untowardAnd my poor gift you have ignored.

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you’d have died in childhood.

Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they’d whispered, reminding each...

So it’s true what they say about warlocks, then?”Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. “What’s true?””Alexander,” said Magnus coldly, and Clary met Simon’s eyes across the table. Hers were wide, green, and full of...

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

Let it be peace between us. You can pour the rest of the port on my head.”James’ mouth curved up into a smile. It was impossible to stay angry with Matthew. It was almost impossible...

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn’t die a horrible death?” Simon wondered out loud. ” It’s like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Mortals dies.” said Catarina. “You’ve always known that, and yet you’ve loved them before.””Not,” Magnus said, “like this.”Catarina inhaled in surprise. “Oh,” she said. “Oh…” She picked up her drink. “Magnus,” she said tenderly. “you...

Isabelle!” he called again. “Let down your raven hair!'”Oh my God,” Clary muttered. “There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn’t there? I’m going to kill him.

The first morning Simon had been at Amatis’s house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the doorstep with a live cat for him. “Blood,” he’d said, in a heavily accented voice. “For you. Fresh!”Simon...

Don’t tell me,” Jace said, “Simon’s turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you’ll have have to wait till tomorrow....

Jace turned to look over his shoulder, the wind whipping his hair into tangles. “What are you thinking?” he called back to her.”Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I...

Look,” Luke went on, “In all the years I’ve known him, there’s always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he’s always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed...

I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that’s good enough.

She managed a smile. “You’re kind of pushy, you know.”He shrugged. “I have a fetish for damsels in distress.””Don’t be sexist.””Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal...

So, ninety-five percent of the time.” She craned her head back to look up at time. “Ninety-five percent? What’s the other five percent?” “Oh, you know, the usual–demons I might kill, runes I need to...

He wished he could find a way back to believing, even though he knew better, that she was his to protect.

I love you,” he said.”I don’t say it often enough. I love you.

This is about Tessa. I knew it was.” Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. “Not just her.””But you love her.”Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he said...

But Alec is my future.

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it’s flickering

I could shine at will!” Magnus grinned at Henry

Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he...

Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely stirring the breeze. It was, if he was completely honest with himself (and he did not want to be),...

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

when he feels something — he can break your heart.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Wherever we are, we are as one

As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a...

I’ve mastered many things in my life. Navigating the strets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms…

–Entonces estás muriendo por amor, –dijo Will finalmente, su voz sonaba estrangulada a sus propios oídos. –Muriendo un poco más rápido por amor. Y hay cosas peores por las que morir.

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

Do you even really know how vampires are made?”Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much…

If you’ve reached this message that means our boy Simon is out partying. But please don’t fight among yourselves. There’s always enough Simon to go around.” There was a muffled yell, some laughter, and then...

Simon,” Isabelle interrupted, “you’re talking like a nerd.”She said it almost fondly, but it freaked Simon out more. “And I don’t know how to be smooth, sexy vampire Simon for you, either!”Isabelle’s perfect mouth curved,...

It was a little sexy, Simon said. He felt much better, having fed, and couldn’t help but poke at Alec a bit. It wasn’t, said Alec. I had some feelings, said Simon.

Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the band of it, and a carved L in the center. It reminded him...

I am one of the Clave. It’s in my blood and bones. So tell me, if you’re so sure this wasn’t my fault, why is it that the first thought in my mind when I...

Riječi su bile oružje,otac ga je tomu naučio,a on je želio povrijediti Clary više nego što je ikada želio povrijediti bilo koju djevojku.Zapravo,nije bilo načisto je li ikada prije želio povrijediti neku djevojku.Obično ih je...

Jace threw his hands up. “So it doesn’t work.””Not necessarily,” Luke said. “There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn’t anything here that Alec is afraid of.”Magnus glanced at...

I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.