Clary- “How to Come Out to Your Parents,” she read out loud. “LUKE. Don’t be ridiculous. Simon’s not gay, he’s a vampire.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

What are you thinking?””Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see.””Everything down there is exactly the same,” he said. “You’re the one that’s different.

That’s your comeback?

Wait.” Clary was suddenly nervous. “The melted metal-it could be, like, toxic or something.”Maia snorted. “I’m from New Jersey. I born in toxic sludge.

I am with you. I’m not going anywhere.””Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?”Only if it falls on Sebastian’s head, she thought. “Can we travel to Idris?...

Simon?” she asked. “I have a stupid question.””What is it?””Did you sleep with Isabelle?”Simon made a choking sound. Clary swiveled slowly around to look at him.”Are you okay?” she asked.”I think so,” he said, recovering...

Simon’s band never actually produced any music. Mostly they sat around in Simon’s living room, fighting about potential names and band logos. She sometimes wondered if any of them could actually play an instrument. ‘What’s...

When he let go of Clary, he turned and hugged Jace. Clary watched, tears running down her face.

Belatedly, Clary recalled something. “I thought you guys said only some of the vampire bikes could fly?”…[Jace:]”Only some of them can!” “How did you know this was one of them?” “I didn’t!” he shouted gleefully…

Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

They’re still looking at him,” she said to Magnus under her breath. “At Will, I mean.””Of course they are,” said Magnus. His eyes reflected light like a cat’s as they surveyed the room. “Look at...

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me

Though the color would be fetching on him

I don’t like the rain forest,” Ragnor said sadly.”That’s because you are not open to new experiences in the same way I am!””No, it is because it is wetter than a boar’s armpit and twice...

The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate.””I’m a very open-minded sort of fellow!

Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?””If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. “A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth.””But you are not a lady, Jessamine—,”...

Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.

We’re not just discussing him; we’re chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he’s turned into a worm.

I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be...

Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.

It was Will, filling the doorway with his lanky, broad-shouldred frame. His blue eyes where thunderous. “What are you doing here?” he demanded.So much for the brief peace they had achieved the night before. “I...

If the marriage were valid, she’d be your sister-in-law.

Is this the part where you tell me you’re secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

Isabelle rolled her eyes. “Oh, for the Angel’s sake. Look, if there’s no other way of getting out of this, I’ll kiss Simon. I’ve done it before, it wasn’t that bad.””Thanks,” said Simon. “That’s very...

No. You don’t get to call me Izzy, you don’t send me letters, you don’t follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats.””Trust me, we see a rat, it’s every man...

Simon: I love you Isabelle Lightwood! I love you and I will not go away until you tell me you love me too!Isabelle: Take your clothes and go!Simon: Isabelle! Stop throwing clothes at me! Just...

I’m his girlfriend. Which gives me the right to kick your ass if you bother him. That’s how it works.

I get the feeling,” Alec said, and smiled, “she hasn’t forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it.””Good girl,” said Jace with appreciation.”I didn’t betray you, idiot.””It’s the thought that counts.

You might want to put some clothes on’ suggested Jace ‘I’m all for the bra and panties look, but you don’t want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement

He reassures her, but he feels her soft laughter travel through their joined hands — how did that happen? — as they make their way downstairs.And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he’d...

He’s not my warlock.

Here we attempt to answer those questions that arise most frequently.YES, THAT IS WHAT ‘FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS’ MEANS, THANK YOU.

But they love each other, isn’t that what love means? That you’re supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?” “Sometimes, love just isn’t enough

Whither thou goest, I will go;Where thou diest, will I dieAnd there will I be buried:The Angel do so to me, and more also,If aught but death part thee and me.

Not specifically. “Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They’re all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni. Most belief systems have some...

She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and...

Say something, Will.”But there was nothing to say. There was only emptiness, as there had been before her. As there would always be.’I have lost everything’, Will thought. ‘Everything.

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. “Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.””Canoodle?” repeated Clary, never having heard the word before.”Magnificent?”...

I can only assume,” said Jace, “that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?””I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy’s house at night and throw up...

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name

shutting your eyes and pretending something’s not happening doesn’t make it not true.

He’s not feeling well,” Clary said, catching at Simon’s wrist. “We’re going.””No,” Simon said. “No, I — I need to talk to him. To the Inquisitor.”Robert reached into his jacket and drew out a crucifix....

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved...

To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.

Only people with no purpose are unhappy.