Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time he came up blank. It was like watching someone digging where they knew they’d buried something...

With a sigh she reached into her pocket and drew out a small velvet bag, which upended on the table. Two gold rings fell out, landing with a soft clink. Simon looked at them puzzled....

He understands why people hold hands: he’d always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it’s about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with...

Ne želim biti muško.Želim biti tinejdžer koji se ne može suočiti s vlastitim demonima pa se umjesto toga verbalno iskaljava na drugim ljudima.

He taught me there’s a place on a man’s back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,’ Sebastian had said. ‘I guess we...

I just wanted to say that you don’t always have to be all right. I asked you to be my parabatai because I needed you, but you’re allowed to need me, too. This” – he...

People were intrinsically selfish, and many hated the idea of a woman in charge of the Institute. They would not put themselves at risk for her. Only a few weeks ago he would have said...

But, like love, fire didn’t last.

Perhaps not,” said Will, who had ears like a bat’s. “But I would make a radiant bride.

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn’t love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who’ll break my Heart

You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.””I was ninety percent sure.””I see,” Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at...

In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.

If we’re going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don’t know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of...

Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with is”Sure” said Magnus. “And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour

And I’m suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?” His voice tightened. “And meanwhile, I’ll die a little bit more every day, watching.

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

Hello, companion,” said Magnus.The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.”I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship,” said Magnus.

I love you unconditionally, his mom had said, once or twice, when he was younger. That’s how parents love. I love you no matter what. People said things like that, without thinking of potential nightmare...

And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for...

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

Anyone that looked like that wouldn’t need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

Happy birthday, Alexander,” Magnus murmured.”Thanks for remembering,” Alec whispered back.

I’ve got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?””A regrettable choice of words,” muttered Magnus.

You’re just worried they’ll hire a male instructor and he’ll be hotter than you.” Jace’s eyebrows went up. “Hotter than me?” “It could happen,” Clary said, “You know, theoretically.””Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in...

Stop it.” Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake’s edge. “Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If we don’t stick together in the Seelie Court, we’re dead.””But...

Your Bracelet,” she said. “Acheronta movebo.’ It doesn’t mean ‘Thus always to tyrants.’ That’s ‘sic semper tyrannis.’ This is from Virgil. ‘Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.’ If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise...

She knew how breakups went from hearing other girls complain about them. First the pulling away, the gradual refusal to return notes or phone calls. The vague messages saying nothing was wrong, that the other...

And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn’t see it, because you’d never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do...

Hey, Clary. You take care of yourself,” he said. “I know you can.” He paused. “And take care of Jace, that poor, helpless blond.”Jace made an obscene gesture, which actually did feel familiar to Simon,...

Not sure. Either way, they could have used a shave.

I have come to understand something about novels,” Tessa said.”And what is that?””They are not true.

I’ve known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that’s left —?

Where’s Magnus?” he said. AS he looked toward the kitchen, Clary saw a bruise on his jaw, below his ear, about the size of a thumbprint. “Alec!” Magnus came skidding into the living room and...

Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here...

Maryse: I am fighting for a better world for myself and my son.Magnus: I have no interest in the world you want or in your doubteless repellent brat, I might add.

What are you?The voice came from nowhere. It was in the room. It was outside. It was in Magnus’s head.”A warlock,” Magnus answered. “And what are you?”We are many.”Please do not say you are a...

[Magnus] reminded himself of his manners, and bowed. “Charmed,” he said. “Or whatever effect would please you best, I’m sure.

Me siento responsable por ese muchacho. Si él nunca encuentra la felicidad, sentiré que le he fallado. Si no puede tener a la chica que ama, sentiré que le he fallado. Si no puedo conservar...

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?

For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.

Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when─”The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of his shirt, and hauled him inside.

When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her.

I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale.I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can...

He’s very annoying.

What would you prefer? ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .

Maybe you should call him,’ Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.

That’s all true, but I’m not doing it.”Raphael looked incredulous. “Why not?”The words exploded out of Simon. “Are you kidding me? Because you have never done one single thing for me in the entire time...