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.

You are not trivial.

Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. “if you were a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful.””yes,” said jace. “or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.

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...

He looks,” Simon had once said to Isabelle, “like he’s thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he’ll punch you in the face.

The alley and the music all fell away, and there was nothing but her and the rain and Jace, his hands on her. . . He made a noise of surprise, low in his throat,...

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?

In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.

But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn’t follow. That we...

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...

I guess you’re coming as my date now.” Simon shoved the phone into his pocket. “I’m secure enough in my masculinity to accept that,” said Jordan. “We better get you something nice to wear, though,”...

But they love each other,” Clary said, appalled. “Isn’t that what love means? That you’re supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?”Luke looked toward the river, at the...

As long as everyone’s wearing their own pants.””I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. “You really don’t get this bodyguard thing, do you?””I didn’t even think you liked me all that much,” said Simon. “Is this one of those...

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me

But they love each other. Isn’t that what love means? That you’re supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

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...

What about you, little girl? You going to be a Shadowhunter like your dad?”Clary tried to hide her annoyance. “No,” she said. “I’m going to be a Shadowhunter, but I’m not going to be like...

I can keep a perfectly good eye on Simon, thank you. He’s my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

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’....