Well, I don’t want you to die,” Tessa said. “I don’t know why I feel it so strongly — I’ve just met you — but I don’t want you to die.””And I trust you,” he...

If you encounter a werewolf in wolf form, you must quickly assess the situation. If he is ignoring you, move away from the area calmly but quickly. If he is watching you, look for the...

Love is a contradiction

D’you think he would have thought ahead like that?” said Henry. “Assuredly,” said Will. “The man’s a strategist.” He tapped his temple. “Like me.

Demons,” drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. “Religiously defined as hell’s denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any...

We live and breathe words. …. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you...

I was trying to make you jealous!” Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. “You’re so stupid, Clary. You’re so stupid, can’t you see anything?”She stared at him in bewilderment. What...

So when the moon’s only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?” “You could say that.””Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.””I’m a...

Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I’ll send you a photo.””And I’ll frame...

Don’t you think ‘Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?” Julian was saying as Emma approached. “I mean, if you really think about it. It’s confusing. ‘Put a Mark on me, Mark.

People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford – “”I am NOT naming our child Buford…

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

Aren’t we forever?

Clary, you’re an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don’t. It’s your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn’t make...

You might want to lie down,” Magnus advised. “I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you’ll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and...

Not forever, Tessa thought. They had a long, long time. A lifetime. His lifetime. And she would lose him one day, as she had lost Will, and her heart would break, as it had broken...

Don’t stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?””Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.””What about mummies? Do they only hang...

I’ve screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

It will have to be Jem. He’s impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.

I suppose you’ve always been amazing at this stuff.”- Clary”I was born amazing.” – Jace

It’s a girl,” Jace said, recovering his composure. “Surely you’ve seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

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.

Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.

He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things...

When Will says ‘enterprising’, he means ‘morally deficient.'” “No, I mean enterprising,” said Will. “When I mean morally deficient, I say, ‘Now, that’s something I would have done.

You have been known to call upon Brother Zachariah for a broken toe.”It was turning green,” said Will

I am glad,” he said. “They will be able to take care of each other when I am gone, or at least I can hope for it. He says she does not love him, but...

–Mi consciencia, –susurró Will. –Tú eres mi consciencia. Siempre lo has sido, James Carstairs. Haré esto por ti, pero primero voy a conseguir una promesa. –,Qué clase de promesa? –Me pediste hace años que cese...

Tess,” he called. But she was still such a distance away — she seemed both very near and very far suddenly and at the same time. He could see every detail of her pretty, upturned...

I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I‘m sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.

I’ll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I’ve experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

Ms. Loss…,’ said Simon. ‘Can I ask you—what you’re doing?’‘Dean Penhallow has decided that she is not going to order fresh food supplies until all this delicious, nutritious soup has been consumed. So I am...

Being too cool for school was Jace’s thing.

I mean more dead than usual.

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.