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

Is your inner vampire different from your…outer vampire?”Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora.”So your inner vampire is Magnus?

Looking at either of them caused a pang in his chest. Looking at both of them started a dull, steady ache.

Not that.

A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane.”Dumbledore would totally win,” said...

She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat’s tail—you screamed like...

I was going to watch Project Runway,” said Jace. “It’s on next.””No, you’re not,” said Magnus. He snapped his fingers and the TV went off, releasing a small puff of smoke as the picture died....

You asked me how I, being immortal, survive somany deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

If you don’t want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I’m an expert. I’ve watched a lot of spy movies.

I can see that,” he said. “Armed to the teeth, as it were.

The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Goodness, real goodness, has it’s own sort of cruelty to it.

Do you think Charlotte will let me handle the investigation?””Do you think you can be trusted in Downworld? The gaming hells, the dens of magical vice, the women of loose morals…” Will smiled the way...

Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.

I’m boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?

Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out.No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

Cuando estás leyendo un libro, y sabes que habrá una tragedia; puedes sentir el frió y la oscuridad llegando, ver la red tejiéndose cerca de los personajes que viven y respiran en las páginas. Pero...

I can’t – I’ll chop off my own foot!” “If you’re going to chop off anyone’s foot, chop off Benedict’s,” Will muttered.

They think they’re better than everyone else.””No,” said Jace. “I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.” Kyle looked at Simon. “Does he always talk like...

I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that...

Have you never seen a movie? Read a comic book? That’s always how it starts – just a little temptation, just a little taste of evil, and then BAM, your light saber turns red and...

Be a hero, Simon,” Simon muttered bitterly, remembering the life Magnus Bane had dangled before him in their first meeting – or at least, the first one Simon could remember. “Have an adventure, Simon. How...

Jace: Back from you breakfast meeting, I see. I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that. Simon: Medium clever. Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters...

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.

Yes,” Jace said, unable to help himself, “I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth’s water water supply – I was covering that...

Well, that’s convenient” said Jace. “I guess blessings are easier to come by than I thought. Maybe I should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day.

Well, I don’t want you to die,” Tessa said. “I don’t know why I feel it so strongly — I’ve just met you — but I don’t want you to die.””And I trust you,” he...

If you encounter a werewolf in wolf form, you must quickly assess the situation. If he is ignoring you, move away from the area calmly but quickly. If he is watching you, look for the...

Love is a contradiction

D’you think he would have thought ahead like that?” said Henry. “Assuredly,” said Will. “The man’s a strategist.” He tapped his temple. “Like me.

Demons,” drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. “Religiously defined as hell’s denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any...

We live and breathe words. …. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you...

I was trying to make you jealous!” Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. “You’re so stupid, Clary. You’re so stupid, can’t you see anything?”She stared at him in bewilderment. What...

So when the moon’s only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?” “You could say that.””Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.””I’m a...

Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I’ll send you a photo.””And I’ll frame...

Don’t you think ‘Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?” Julian was saying as Emma approached. “I mean, if you really think about it. It’s confusing. ‘Put a Mark on me, Mark.

People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford – “”I am NOT naming our child Buford…

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change