The Law is hard, but it’s the Law,” Simon added in disgust. “So freaking what? If the Law is wrong, why not change it? Do you know what the world would look like if we...

I hate it when straight guys think all gay guys are attracted to them. I’m not attracted to every guy any more than you’re attracted to every girl.

Yech,” said Simon.”Don’t ‘yech’ me. You’re the one with the magical spit.

Isabelle looked at him thoughtfully. “Did you seriously jump thirty feet out of a Malachi Configuration? Did he, Alec?””He did,” Alec confirmed. “I’ve never seen anything like it.””I’ve never seen anything like this.” Jace lifted...

Ne.Ja imam visok prag boli.U biti to i nije toliko prag,koliko veliko i lijepo uređeno predvorje.Ali brzo mi postane dosadno.

I don’t hate you, Jace.””I don’t hate you, either.”She looked up at him, relieved. “I’m glad to hear that—””I wish I could hate you,” he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an...

Hey baby, guess where my warlock mark is?Never works. Trust me. Never works.

The morning star isn’t a stat,” Clary said grumpily. It’s a planet. I learned that in astronomy class.””Mundane education is regrettably prosaic,” said Jace.

Yeeeees, tell me eeeeeverything.” I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don’t remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The...

Demon pox, oh, demon pox, Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town Until one is very tired.Demon pox, oh, demon pox I had it all along— No,...

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasn’t sure she was breathing herself. She slid her own hand across the bedsheet,...

It means ‘Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234’.

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.

it’s like she knows me already.

All knowledge hurts.

There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of...

Clary,” he said. “You’re Clary. You’re my best friend.

Pain is only what you allow it to be

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

Simon,” said a voice at his shoulder, and he turned to see Izzy, her face a pale smudge between dark hair and dark cloak, looking at him, her expression half-angry, half-sad. “I guess this is...

She turned back to Jace. “Do you have to be so-,” she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable.”Unpleasant?” he finishes for her. “Only at days when my...

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

But I have made a study of Shadowhunters now, over the past century, and let me tell you that we are more human than most human beings. When our hearts break, they break into shards...

There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half...

Raphael’s hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. “I have no soul,” he said. “But I made you a promise on my mother’s doorstep, and she...

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?””I don’t know,” Magnus said. “Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

This could be the last night of our lives, certainly the last even barely ordinary one. The last night we go to sleep and get up just as we always have. And all I could...

actually am.

very funny my sarcastic friend

I can’t tell them what to do!””Why not?” the other girl demanded. “Honestly, Clary, if you don’t start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don’t know what I’ll do with you.

She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in...

Was it better to think you had lost everything, and to start over? Or easier to know that the people you loved were alive, even if you could never see them again?

Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green...

Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. “I have an invitation. These”—she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm—”are my friends.”Magnus plucked the invitation...

Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it’s a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell on the truck so it wouldn’t sink when I lost...

There was no point in wallowing. Magnus refused towallow. Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people, and depressing elephants.

Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

I’ll need you to get a leash for my monkey, Claude, and also a hat.””Of course, monsieur””Do you think he needs a little coat as well?””Perhaps not in this weather, monsieur.””You are right,” Magnus said...

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

It wouldn’t be my move,” Jace agreed. “First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will’s sleeve. “You are my parabatai,” he said, “You said once I could ask anything of you.

Hang Mortmain,” said Will. “And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.

I believe everything you say,” Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping down from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of a dagger, and she yanked it from...

Tus palabras me han cambiado Tess, han hecho de mí un hombre mejor que no hubiera sido de otra manera. La vida es un libro, y hay miles de páginas que no hemos leído todavía....

I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all.””I believe everything you say,” Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping doen from his waist to his weapons...

Will!” Charlotte threw up her hands. “Why didn’t you say so?””You know, the books on demon pox are in the library,” Will said with an injured tone. “I wasn’t preventing anyone from reading them

Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. “I’ve no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes…