I should have guessed you were Jace’s sister,” he said. “You both have the same artistic talent.”Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. “Jace can draw?”Nah.” When Alec smiled, his...

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger’s charming smile.

Could you really love two different people at once? Could you split your heart in half?

If I kiss you all day every day for the rest of my life, it won’t be enough.

Will,” she said softly, sleepily. “Last night–” You were kind to me, she was going to say. Thank you. The glare from his blue eyes stabbed through her. “There was no last night,” he said...

Not everything is about you,” Clary said furiously.”Possibly,” Jace said, “but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

The rat, huddled in the hollow of her palms, squeaked glumly. Delighted, she hugged him to her chest. “Oh poor baby,” she crooned, almost as if he really were a pet. “Poor Simon, it’ll be...

The Angel blade burns you, just as God’s name chokes you,” said Valentine, his cool voice sharp as crystal. “They say that those who die upon its point will achieve the gates of heaven. In...

No kissing?””Well, kissing, probably. But as for the rest of it…”She brushed her cheek lightly against his. “It’s okay with me if it’s okay with you.””Of course it’s not okay with me. I’m a teenage...

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open.” Magnus smiled crookedly. “Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn’t have a sense of humor.

Jace was kissing her like he thought he might go to hell for doing it, but it would be worth it.

Everyone knows Valentine’s son.””I know, but – when Emma saw you, she acted like you were her celebrity crush.Like you were on the cover of Shadowhunters Weekly every month.””You know, when they asked me to...

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one;all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

His loyalty is to me.

Wear that scarf,” he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. “It matches your eyes.”Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate – for the scarf, for Magnus, and...

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can...

It was one thing to have a demon for a parent. It was another thing when your father owned a significant portion of Hell’s real estate.

They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He...

When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.

In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.

That’s why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don’t say anything, they just nod. The nod means, ‘I’ am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,’ but they...

We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel...

under his dripping hair, he was as white as parchment, his hands clenched at his sides so tightly that they were shaking. It seemed clear that some terrible turmoil was ripping him apart from the...

Mother, Father, my chwaer fach,It’s my seventeenth birthday today. I know that to write to you is to break the law, I know that I will likely tear this letter into pieces when it is...

Will-“”I love you so much, so incredibly much,” he went on, “and when you’re this close to me, I forget who you are. I forget you’re Jem’s. I’d have to be the worst sort of...

And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls.

Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain,To prove that demon pox warps the brain.So though ‘ti pity, it’s not in vainThat the pox-ridden worm was slain:For to believe in me, you all must deign.

No. That’s Clary; shes’s my best friend.” Simon pocketed his phone. “And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn’t a very attractive woman for her age.

Very tight.Very leather.

Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every one of them is looking to be a hero. We are all hoping for it, and trying for it, and...

You know what? Don’t explain. Just—put your clothes on, both of you.

If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat,” Jace muttered.Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. “What did you say?”Jace edged toward the fridge. “I said I’m going to look for a snack to...

This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!””I wasn’t planning to,” Jace said. “I can’t shrug anything off. My shoulder’s dislocated.”-Hodge & Jace, pg.296-

Clary,” he whispered. There was a thump, and she realized he had fallen to his kees by the side of her bed. She didn’t move, but her body tightened. His voice was a whisper. “Clary,...

And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt.It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly...

We will stand bravely with you! Malcolm announced. Catarina looked darkly at him, and he quailed. Well, we will stand bravely near you. Or at least within earshot. Maia gave him a hard look. So...

You have no idea what it is,” Ty said in a clipped voice. “You can’t say it’s going to be okay. You don’t know.

About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—

They’re dead. They’re all dead.

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Love didn’t make you weak, it made you stronger.

What are all these?” Clary asked.”Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades,” Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, “electrum wire – not much use at the moment but...

You look lousy,’ he said. Jace blinked. ‘Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.”No I mean it. You don’t look good.”This is...

Henry turned as if to dart out of the room, then swung around and stared at them, a look of confusion passing over his freckled face, as if he had only now had cause to...

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Well I’d certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

The door buzzer sounded again. The two boys exchanged a single look before both bolting down the narrow hallway to the door. Jordan got there first. He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the...

But sleep didn’t come. She could hear Jace’s soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn’t what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt...

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine’s daughter, to be the catalist of it all.