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...

Because I am not your bitch,” Alec said, clearly pleased with himself.

Jace flushed a slow, dark red. “It’s not like that. If I thought it would help the Clave-but it won’t. She’ll just get hurt-“”Even if you thought it would help the Clave”, Simon said, “you’d...

I make rude gestures at nuns

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

I won’t be just your friend. I love you, Maia. I’m in love with you. I always have been. I always will be. Just being your friend would kill me” – Jordan

You just like me because I’m safe. There’s no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real relationship, because you can use me as an excuse.

No one manages Will.

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

I’ve never minded it,” he went on. “Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one’s own heart. But I fear I may be lost without...

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

We need to talk. All of us About what we’re going to do now.””I was going to watch Project Runway.

Take off your shirt.”Jace raised his eyebrows. “I’m not going to attack you,” she said impatiently. “I can take the sight of your naked chest without swooning.””Are you sure?” he asked, obediently sliding the shirt...

I think she just asked if she could touch my mango.

Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again,...

What did Isabelle want?” Jace asked.Alec hesitated. “Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us.””Sure,” said Magnus. “And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world...

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to...

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

Nobody trusts a Hunter,” Mark said.

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you’d told everyone you hated them and not to come after...

One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn’t if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily – and Parisian vampires were the worst...

The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

Patience, grasshopper,” said Maia. “Good things come to those who wait.””I always thought that was ‘Good things come to those who do the wave,'” said Simon. “No wonder I’ve been so confused all my life.

You think that’s the solution to everything, don’t you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love… but I tell you this, something is coming, and we’d be fools to ignore it.””When have I ever claimed...

I’ve noticed the Fair Folk often say ‘perhaps’ when there is a truth they want to hide,” Clary said. “It keeps you from having to give a straight answer.””Perhaps so,” said the Queen with an...

The implication was clear in the snap itself.

That thing that looks like me but isn’t? He’ll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he’s doing it. That’s what you’re saving, Clary. That. Don’t you understand? I’d rather...

When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn’t believe it. Not just because I didn’t want it to be true, but because you weren’t anything like him. I’ve never...

I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know.”He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. ” I know,” he...

Maybe it was true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.

This time Magnus answered it, his voice booming through the tiny entryway. “WHO DARES DISTURB MY REST?”Jace looked almost nervous. “Jace Wayland. Remember? I’m from the Clave.””Oh, yes.” Magnus seemed to have perked up. “Are...

I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.”Magnus, pg. 137

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

I’m Magnus.” He smiled, showing blinding white teeth.”Magnus Bane.””Are we long-lost friends, by any chance?” Simon said.”Just wondering.””No, we never got along all that well,” said Magnus.”Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you.

Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely stirring the breeze. It was, if he was completely honest with himself (and he did not want to be),...

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

when he feels something — he can break your heart.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Wherever we are, we are as one

As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a...

I’ve mastered many things in my life. Navigating the strets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms…