Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,” said Jace. “I’d rather stay down here and rot.””Forever?” said Simon. “Forever’s an awfully long time.”Jace raised his eyebrows. “I knew it,” he said. “You want to kiss me,...

Is this Clarissa Fray?” The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. “Yeees?””Hi, I’m one of the knife-carrying hooligans you...

You’re Valentine’s son. I’m sure you’re the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you’re charming. Maybe not at the moment.

Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon’s love life borderline hilarious.

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he...

I just know.”-Luke and Clary, pg.209-

If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as...

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it’s like tearing off the bandages.

Can I tell you a boring science fact?” she whispered. “I bet you didn’t learn it in Shadowhunter history class.””If you’re trying to distract me from talking about my feelings, you’re not being very subtle...

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don’t even know what the word means.

The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. “How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was a terrible father. He killed your pets, lied to you,...

Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for years expecting to find him...

I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

But not, I think, so much as the both of you.

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. “Be brave,” she said. “It’s not a duck, is it?

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it’s 5 a.m., I figured you’d be less cranky...

I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you’re told.” Jace squinted at her. “Are those Isabelle’s clothes? They look ridiculous on you.” “I could point out that you burned my...

Clary,” he said. “You saved my life.””I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire.”His lips twitched imperceptibly. “Okay,” he said. “So maybe our problems aren’t like other couples.

Her green eyes flutter all the way open, and she looks amused. It pricks his ego slightly. After that kiss, shouldn’t she be fainting at his feet? But she’s grinning.

You can’t just go around killing people.You’re right. You can’t go around killing people.

Heroes save worlds,” Clary said. “They don’t destroy them.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she’d studied all too briefly.

that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off.

They always have to have the last word.

Alec slid his hand from Jace’s arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.

He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.

If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

How generous the universe could be, when he wanted to be!

Mauve,” said Will.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

I think I may be in love with you, Sophie,” said Will. “Marriage could be in the cards.

I promise to charm the dickens out of him,’ said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. ‘I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying...

The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great...

There’s nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then...

I am nothing if not gracious,” Will said. His eyes searched Jem’s face, that face as familiar to him as his own. “And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

I don’t let it color my judgment.

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids ‘Timmy Has Two Dads’. Except I don’t think they have one called ‘Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil’....

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn’t you have done that on a night I didn’t have a date? That’s most nights, in case you’re...

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

I had some feelings,” said Simon.””Do feel free to agonize about it on your own time.

No,” said Simon. “I know we’re not much compared to you, but we don’t kill our friends. We try to save them. If Heaven didn’t want it that way, we ought to have been given...

Because I am not your bitch,” Alec said, clearly pleased with himself.

Jace flushed a slow, dark red. “It’s not like that. If I thought it would help the Clave-but it won’t. She’ll just get hurt-“”Even if you thought it would help the Clave”, Simon said, “you’d...

I make rude gestures at nuns

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

I won’t be just your friend. I love you, Maia. I’m in love with you. I always have been. I always will be. Just being your friend would kill me” – Jordan

You just like me because I’m safe. There’s no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real relationship, because you can use me as an excuse.

No one manages Will.

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