Isabelle. Simon’s mouth moved to form the shape of her name, pressing it into his pillow. He’d told himself he wasn’t going to think about her, not until he was really getting somewhere in the...

Mothers,lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

Look. Jammies.

We have a name,” said Jace. “Magnes B-“”Shut up.” Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured.”Jesus,” he rubbed his arm. “What’s your problem?

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” – Jem Carstairs

—Jem es la mejor parte de mí. —Entonces, ,qué soy yo? —Eres mi debilidad. —Y Tessa es tu corazón.

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you’d have forever.

Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.

Maybe that was why she couldn’t cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when...

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

Investigation?” Isabelle laughed. “Now we’re detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.””Good idea,” said Jace. “I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.

I don’t do what I’m told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

I am a man, and men do not drink pink drinks. Now, be gone, woman, and fetch me something brown.” Jace said. “Brown?” said Isabelle.”Yes. Brown. It’s a manly color. See? Alec is wearing it.”...

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn’t stopped believing in God. I’d just stopped believing God cared. There might be a...

If you love someone, you’re not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie–not really dead but not really alive, either.

Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. “How much of that did you hear?””Enough to gather that we’re going to a...

We live and breathe words.

Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.

It’s alright to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Even if you haven’t had the exclusivity conversation, they’re still going to be mad if they find out you’re dating someone they know and you haven’t mentioned it. It’s a dating rule.” “Well, how am...

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self,...

Of course, everyone’s going to freak out when you show up at school.””Freak out? Why?””Because you’re so much hotter now than when you left.” She shrugged. “It’s true. Must be a vampire thing.”Simon looked baffled....

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn’t realize was precious until you lost it.

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They’re peculiar that way.

Actually,” said Jace, “I prefer to think that I’m a liar in a way that’s uniquely my own.

She turned and looked at him. “Ducks?” she said again.A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. “I hate ducks. Don’t know why. I just always have.

Lost in thought, it took her several moments to realize that Jace had been saying something to her. When she blinked at him, she saw a wry grin spread across his face. “What?” she asked,...

Now this is really going to impress Valentine.””I don’t know,” Clary said. “Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the Aquatruck.””If you don’t like it, Nephilim,” came Magnus’s voice, faintly, from...

They had just showed up, Amatis had said. Which meant Simon had spent the entire night at Isabelle’s. She stared at him. He didn’t look any different.

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

To love is to destroy

Clary was trying not to think about the fact that it had been three days since she’d seen Magnus, and he’d sent no word at all. Or the fact that there was really nothing stopping...

You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn...

Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brazil, Peru – Oh, wait, no, I’m banned from Peru. I’d forgotten about that. It’s a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

He’d learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

I have known you a long time, and I am absolutely certain on this subject. If you are planning to become a pirate again, it’s a bad idea.

The monster’s bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seemed transfixed by his pajamas. Magnus was frankly offended. He had not invited any wives of crazed hate-cult leader...

[Magnus] stumbled over a few people to the phone, only to find that he had actually reached for a large decorative cigarette dispenser. It was possible he was not quite at his best either.

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.

Are you ready?”She nodded, and he raised his hand to knock on the door.

No, i mean enterprising.” said Will. “When I mean morally deficient, I say,`Now, that is something i would have done´

Like what you see?

Sophie did this?” He said, not for the first time. They were standing at the foot of Jessamine’s bed. She lay flung upon it, her chest rising and falling slowly like the famous Sleeping Beauty...

She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

Doesn’t like you? She hates you!

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common.””Totally awesome hair?” Simon suggested.

Clearly,’ said Luke, ‘something’s going on that I don’t know about.’Simon looked over at him. ‘Sometimes I think that’s the motto of my life.