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...

Oh, no. A story. This was perhaps too maudlin and too much for the early hour, but handsome and heart-broken young men could occasionally be indulged.

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I’m concerned.’ – Magnus Bane

I am a man” he told her, “and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.

I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me,” Will said, his bloody hand on the hilt of the dagger. ” And you are still with me. When I breath, I will think...

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 would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

Faith,” said Jem. “That you were better than you thought you were. Forgiveness, that you need not always punish yourself. I always loved you, Will. Whatever you did. And now I need you to do...

Will interrupted. “Henry,” he said, “you’re on fire. You do know that, don’t you?

I’ve never minded it,” he went on. “Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one’s own heart. But I fear I may be lost without...

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

We need to talk. All of us About what we’re going to do now.””I was going to watch Project Runway.

Take off your shirt.”Jace raised his eyebrows. “I’m not going to attack you,” she said impatiently. “I can take the sight of your naked chest without swooning.””Are you sure?” he asked, obediently sliding the shirt...

I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.

Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again,...

What did Isabelle want?” Jace asked.Alec hesitated. “Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us.””Sure,” said Magnus. “And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world...

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to...

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

Nobody trusts a Hunter,” Mark said.

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you’d told everyone you hated them and not to come after...

One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn’t if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily – and Parisian vampires were the worst...