Isabelle.It was always Isabelle.

Isabelle snorted, “All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.””You noticed,” said Simon. “I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,” added Magnus. “Please never say those words in front...

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

Yech,” said Simon.”Don’t ‘yech’ me. You’re the one with the magical spit.

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...

Speaking of luck, Isabelle Lightwood is a total babe. Actually, she’s better than a babe: She’s a hero. She came all the way here to tell the world you were hers. You’re telling me she...

I was going to put what birthday it was on the sign,” he said, “but Jace said that after twenty, you’re just old, so it doesn’t matter anyway.”Jace stopped with his fork halfway to his...

How’d you get Magnus to let Jace leave?””Traded him for Alec,” Clary said.

Why do you tell me you love me only when you’re drunk or dreaming? she asked. I have awful timing, said Simon

You don’t get it, Clary. You don’t understand what it’s like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it’s not your fault. It’s just how you were brought...

Isabelle waved a hand. “No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course,” she added as Alex’a shoulders relaxed, “I was totally passed-out drunk, so he could really have done whatever he wanted and...

I mean more dead than usual.

Stop it.” Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake’s edge. “Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If we don’t stick together in the Seelie Court, we’re dead.””But...

I’m not your boyfriend, Isabelle,” he called out.She went white, Simon was horrified by how badly his words had come out.”I mean, I can’t be your boyfriend, Isabelle,” he said. “I’m not him–that guy who...

You made a deal with your heart, your soul, and your body, and you sealed it with the wash of your climax on my c*ck.”She blinked, looking dazed. He’d never used such words before, especially...

It’s love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don’t have to treat everything like it’s a last stand.

She was so overwhelmingly beautiful and impressive, he found it too much to handle. He could barely believe any of his new memroies, but the idea that Isabelle Lightwood had been his girlfriend seemed more...

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...

WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?” There was a sound of shattering glass, and they both sat up to see Alec glaring at them. He had dropped the empty bottle of wine he had been carrying,...

Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the band of it, and a carved L in the center. It reminded him...

It’s a girl,” Jace said, recovering his composure. “Surely you’ve seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

Simon bristled. She wasn’t his Isabelle, not anymore. He wondered if she ever truly had been. Isabelle didn’t seem like the type of girl to belong to someone. It was one of the things he...

Isabelle snorted. ‘All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.”You noticed’ said Simon.’I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,’ added Magnus.’Please never say those words in front of my...

You have a book that’s also a face?

Shapes began to appear in the mist as it thickened. Clary saw herself and Simon as children, holding hands, crossing a street in Brooklyn,; she had barrettes in her hair and Simon was adorably rumpled,...

Do you even really know how vampires are made?”Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much…

I saw you fall down, and—I thought you were dead.

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...