Unpleasant?” he finished for her.”Only on the days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually, I’m remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day...

Alec dragged the heavy canvas bag out of the back of the van, dropping it on the sidewalk. “Ready to go.” He announced. “Lets kick some demon butt!”Jace looked at him a little oddly. “You...

Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library… alone.” He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.

Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant. I love you. And I don’t want to lose you.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

Dear God, woman,”said Will. “Are there any questions you don’t want to know the answer to?

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now...

Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,” said Jace. “I’d rather stay down here and rot.””Forever?” said Simon. “Forever’s an awfully long time.”Jace raised his eyebrows. “I knew it,” he said. “You want to kiss me,...

Is this Clarissa Fray?” The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. “Yeees?””Hi, I’m one of the knife-carrying hooligans you...

You’re Valentine’s son. I’m sure you’re the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you’re charming. Maybe not at the moment.

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you’d have died in childhood.

Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they’d whispered, reminding each...

So it’s true what they say about warlocks, then?”Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. “What’s true?””Alexander,” said Magnus coldly, and Clary met Simon’s eyes across the table. Hers were wide, green, and full of...

as long as I can still dream, I will dream of you.

Let it be peace between us. You can pour the rest of the port on my head.”James’ mouth curved up into a smile. It was impossible to stay angry with Matthew. It was almost impossible...

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn’t die a horrible death?” Simon wondered out loud. ” It’s like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Mortals dies.” said Catarina. “You’ve always known that, and yet you’ve loved them before.””Not,” Magnus said, “like this.”Catarina inhaled in surprise. “Oh,” she said. “Oh…” She picked up her drink. “Magnus,” she said tenderly. “you...

Isabelle!” he called again. “Let down your raven hair!'”Oh my God,” Clary muttered. “There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn’t there? I’m going to kill him.

The first morning Simon had been at Amatis’s house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the doorstep with a live cat for him. “Blood,” he’d said, in a heavily accented voice. “For you. Fresh!”Simon...

Don’t tell me,” Jace said, “Simon’s turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you’ll have have to wait till tomorrow....

Jace turned to look over his shoulder, the wind whipping his hair into tangles. “What are you thinking?” he called back to her.”Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I...

Look,” Luke went on, “In all the years I’ve known him, there’s always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he’s always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed...

I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that’s good enough.

She managed a smile. “You’re kind of pushy, you know.”He shrugged. “I have a fetish for damsels in distress.””Don’t be sexist.””Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal...

So, ninety-five percent of the time.” She craned her head back to look up at time. “Ninety-five percent? What’s the other five percent?” “Oh, you know, the usual–demons I might kill, runes I need to...

He wished he could find a way back to believing, even though he knew better, that she was his to protect.

I love you,” he said.”I don’t say it often enough. I love you.

This is about Tessa. I knew it was.” Will flushed, a wash of color across the pallor of this face. “Not just her.””But you love her.”Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he said...

But Alec is my future.

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it’s flickering

I could shine at will!” Magnus grinned at Henry

Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he...

Oh, no. A story. This was perhaps too maudlin and too much for the early hour, but handsome and heart-broken young men could occasionally be indulged.

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I’m concerned.’ – Magnus Bane

I am a man” he told her, “and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.

I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me,” Will said, his bloody hand on the hilt of the dagger. ” And you are still with me. When I breath, I will think...

I think I may be in love with you, Sophie,” said Will. “Marriage could be in the cards.

I promise to charm the dickens out of him,’ said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. ‘I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying...

The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great...

There’s nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then...

I am nothing if not gracious,” Will said. His eyes searched Jem’s face, that face as familiar to him as his own. “And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

I don’t let it color my judgment.

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids ‘Timmy Has Two Dads’. Except I don’t think they have one called ‘Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil’....

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn’t you have done that on a night I didn’t have a date? That’s most nights, in case you’re...

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

I had some feelings,” said Simon.””Do feel free to agonize about it on your own time.

No,” said Simon. “I know we’re not much compared to you, but we don’t kill our friends. We try to save them. If Heaven didn’t want it that way, we ought to have been given...