You look lousy,’ he said. Jace blinked. ‘Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.”No I mean it. You don’t look good.”This is...

since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Is this the part where you tell me you’re secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it’s you, and I realize now that I won’t be anymore ready to...

You’re a public menace. You shouldn’t be allowed out on your own.

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...

No. That’s Clary; shes’s my best friend.” Simon pocketed his phone. “And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

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’....

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?””I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy’s house at night and throw up...

So what was that all about?””I think,” Jace said, “that she asked if she could touch my mango.””She said that?”Jace shrugged. “Yeah, then she gave me her number.

He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.

Oh, good. You’re starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That’s not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

Magnus sighed. “Alexander, I’ve been alive for hundreds of years. I’ve been with men, been with women – with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two.” He looked sideways at Maryse,...

That’s right. Act like I rejected you. It’s not like you tried to kill me or anything.

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

Hey,” said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, “do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?””Not really,” said Simon. “Magnus is wearing lederhosen.””And yet,...

… As could the sarcasm in her voice. “yes, she’s bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I’d avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

He’s my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

Alexander!

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.

I can see why you like it here,” he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle’s collection of movie posters and science fiction books. “There’s a thin layer of nerd all over everything.” said Jace.”Thanks....

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

Clary, Despite everything, I can’t bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one,...

Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?””It’s my job.””It’s a hazard of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green...

Do you think it’s possible to do something so bad, even if you didn’t mean to do it, that you can never come back from it? That no one can forgive you?”Luke looked at him...

The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above...

What’s this?””That’s a mango.” Simon stared at Jace. Sometimes it really is like Shadowhunters were from an alien planet. “I don’t think I’ve seen one of those that wasn’t already cut up,” Jace mused. “I...

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...

So basically you’re threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don’t do what you say?

And now,” Eric yelled into his mircophone, “we’re going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one’s for my girlfriend. We’ve been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true....

But Alec is my future.

I screwed her over. I didn’t want to see her screwed over by someone else.

She made an impatient noise. “By the Angel, you don’t know anything about your kid, do you? Do you even really know how vampires are made?””Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love...

It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

I suppose you’ve always been amazing at this stuff.”- Clary”I was born amazing.” – Jace

Here’s a hot tip: Most girls don’t like being stalked.

And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland—Herondale—Lightwood—whatever you want to call yourself. I don’t care. I love you and I wil always love you, and pretending it could be any other...

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.

At least Kyle wasn’t home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

The door buzzer sounded again. The two boys exchanged a single look before both bolting down the narrow hallway to the door. Jordan got there first. He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the...

So you’re trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she’s unhappy in the first place is you,” said Simon, not very kindly. “That seems contradictory, doesn’t it?””Love is a contradiction,” said...

Isabelle and Jace had left the topic of dead Shadowhunters behind and had moved on to something Jace apparently found even more horrifying__Isabelle’s date with Simon.”I can’t believe he took you to an actual restaurant.”...

One of the things he’d always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny...

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.