Isabelle.It was always Isabelle.

Izzy,” said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling.”Jace!” She flew at him and hugged him. Now that was the way sisters were supposed to...

Once you Ascend, you’ll get all your memories back!” Isabelle shouted at him.”If I Ascend, it will be in two years. I’m not going to be the same guy in two years, even if I...

There are worse things,” Magnus observed.

You know what? Don’t explain. Just—put your clothes on, both of you.

As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination.

It doesn’t hurt.””But my eyes do,” said a coolly amused voice from the doorway. Jace. He had come in so quietly that even Simon hadn’t heard him; closing the door behind him, he grinned as...

If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat,” Jace muttered.Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. “What did you say?”Jace edged toward the fridge. “I said I’m going to look for a snack to...

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.

Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

Even the trip throught the Portal had not disarranged Magnus’s hair spikes. He tugged on one proudly. “Check it out”, he said to Isabelle.”Magic?””Hair gel. $3.99 at Ricky’s.

Oh, Lord Montgomery, what do you mean to do with me in this bedroom when you have me all alone? An innocent maiden, and unprotected? Is my virtue safe?’I, ah- what?”I know you are a...

Jordan leaned on the counter. He felt a little like a bartender in a TV show, dispensing sage advice. “What do you owe her?””Life,” Isabelle said.Jordan blinked. This was a little beyond his bartending and...

There are things our souls want, and mine wants you.

I forgot that’s what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things.””I like anyone killing things, especially me.” he said with a smile.

I can’t tell them what to do!””Why not?” the other girl demanded. “Honestly, Clary, if you don’t start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don’t know what I’ll do with you.

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...

That does it,” said Jace. “I’m going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.””Why?” Isabelle said.”So you can look up ‘fun.’ I’m not sure you know what it means.

Just ask Clary.

Simon I’ve been trying to call you, but it seems like your phone is turned off. I don’t know where you are right now. I don’t know if Clary’s already told you what happened tonight....

Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?” Aline looked up. “Climb the demon towers?” She laughed. “No, no one ever does that. It’s totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, why...

All right. Are you going to come back? Do you want any soup?””No,” said Jace.”Do you think Hodge will want any soup?””No one wants any soup.””I want some soup,” Simon said.”No, you don’t,” said Jace....

I get the feeling,” Alec said, and smiled, “she hasn’t forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it.””Good girl,” said Jace with appreciation.”I didn’t betray you, idiot.””It’s the thought that counts.

And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn’t see it, because you’d never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do...

Don’t talk.” Alec gestured at him with an expression of vague disgust.”Every time I look at you, I keep remembering coming in here and seeing you draped all over my sister.”Jace sat up.”I didn’t hear...

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.

Get over here. Sheldon’s had an idea.””Who’s Sheldon?”, said Isabelle.

I’m his girlfriend. Which gives me the right to kick your ass if you bother him. That’s how it works.

It—It’s my bedroom!” Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position.

Isabelle rolled her eyes. “Oh, for the Angel’s sake. Look, if there’s no other way of getting out of this, I’ll kiss Simon. I’ve done it before, it wasn’t that bad.””Thanks,” said Simon. “That’s very...

Isabelle looked at him thoughtfully. “Did you seriously jump thirty feet out of a Malachi Configuration? Did he, Alec?””He did,” Alec confirmed. “I’ve never seen anything like it.””I’ve never seen anything like this.” Jace lifted...

Simon snorted. “If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not...

Say it,” she said. “Say it sober.””I love you,” he said.”I don’t want you to say it back unless you mean it, but I love you.”She leaned back over him, and pressed the pads of...

Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. “I can’t believe you...

I have friends,” Alec said, and looked over his shoulder, almost as if he couldn’t help it, at Jace.But Jace, his golden head down, lost in thought, didn’t notice.

I have no idea who you are. Never seen you before.

Isabelle! he called again. Let down your raven hair. Oh, my God, Clary muttered. There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn’t there? I’m going to kill him. He’s already dead, Simon observed....

I am here to determine my relationship.”Simon goggled. She couldn’t be talking about him. Could she?”Do you see that man?” Isabelle asked, pointing at Simon. Apparently she was talking about him. “That’s Simon Lewis, and...

Well,” said Clary, after a judicious pause, “I guess you wouldn’t have taken advantage of her when she’s so grief-stricken and all.” Simon snorted. “If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of...

He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.

I’ll go with you,” Alec said, looking at Isabelle and Simon with suspicious eyes.”If you must,” said Isabelle with exaggerated indifference.”I should warn you we’ll be making out in the dark. Big, sloppy make-outage.”Simon looked...

Alec looked at her and shook his head. “How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?”Isabelle shrugged philosophically. “I’m pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

Because Valentine is just WAY MORE AWESOME than me,

Now shut up. I want to sleep,” she said, and she curled up against his side and closed her eyes.Somehow, now, they fit, where they hadn’t before.Nothing was awkward, or poking into him, or banging...

Aline!” Isabelle looked appalled. “You can’t just go around asking people what it’s like to be a vampire.

Simon,” Isabelle interrupted, “you’re talking like a nerd.”She said it almost fondly, but it freaked Simon out more. “And I don’t know how to be smooth, sexy vampire Simon for you, either!”Isabelle’s perfect mouth curved,...

Isabelle,” she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, “your loyalty to your friend is understandable –“”He’s not my friend.” Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of...

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

Lord Montgomery considers nothing but his own desires,” he said in a gravelly voice.”I’ll tell you something else. Lord Montgomery has a very large estate…and pretty extensive grounds, too.”Isabelle giggled, and Simon felt the bed...

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.