Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again,...

actually am.

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,

Ugh,” he said after a few swallows. “Dead blood.” Jace’s eyebrows went up. ” Isn’t all blood dead?” “The longer the animal whose blood I’m drinking has been dead, the worse the blood tastes,” Simon...

Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.

Guys don’t let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.

and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has....

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.

I didn’t say he was dating you,” he said, “but funny that you knew just what I meant, isn’t it?””We’re not dating,” Alec said again.”Oh?” Magnus said. “So you’re just that friendly with everybody, is...

She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses...

Not if your strong enough,” said Jace firmly. He reached out, and she felt the back of his hand brush her cheek…

Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?Vividly, Jace said. It was a dark time.

that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because…

(Jace) “Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?” Only if it falls on Sebastian’s head, she thought.

A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec,...

What’s this?” he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.”It’s a girl,” Jace said,recovering his composure. “Surely you’ve seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle...

I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire.”His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. “Okay, so maybe our problems aren’t like other couples.

Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?’Jace said, “Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself.”…”At least,” she said, “you don’t have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.””Not necessarily....

And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you’re done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a...

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that’s good enough.

Ese tipo de amor capaz de consumir el mundo o llevarlo a la gloria

If I kiss you all day every day for the rest of my life, it won’t be enough.

As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.

Demons,” drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. “Religiously defined as hell’s denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any...

And next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary’s veins run a little faster. “You want to go on a date?”Caught off guard, she stammered. “A wh-what?””A date,” Jace...

Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?””If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.

I love you, Clary,” he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. “More than I ever–” He broke...

Not enough,” he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. “If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won’t be enough.

Isabelle: Do you want some soup?Jace: NoIsabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup?Jace: No one wants soupSimon: I want some soup!Jace: No, you don’t. You just want to sleep with Isabelle

But not, I think, so much as the both of you.

So, ninety-five percent of the time.” She craned her head back to look up at time. “Ninety-five percent? What’s the other five percent?” “Oh, you know, the usual–demons I might kill, runes I need to...

you can run out of garlic, you can’t really run out of music

Every time I think I’m missing a piece of me, you give it back.

Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. “What are you doing here?”He drew back slightly, looking disappointed. “That isn’t really an...

I am a man” he told her, “and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan’s Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

He taught me there’s a place on a man’s back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,’ Sebastian had said. ‘I guess we...

It was at first almost as if he hadn’t wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; then he put both arms around her and pulled her against him. His lips softened....

I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know.”He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. ” I know,” he...

I’d do it all over again, knowing that you were going to be there at the end. I’d walk through the sadness and the loneliness all over again for you.

Jace broke off the kiss and stepped back with an exhale; before Clary could say anything, a chorus of sarcastic applause broke out from the nearby hill. Simon, Isabelle, and Alec waved at them. Jace...

Clary wasn’t sure what she’d expected -exclamations of delight, perhaps a smattering of applause. Instead there was silence, broken only when Jace said, “Somehow, I thought it would be bigger.”Clary looked at the Cup in...

Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you’ll kill me?””No” Simon said, “If you hurt Clary she’s quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.

Fu Alec a parlare per primo. “Cos’è?” chiese guardando Clary.”E’ una ragazza” disse Jace. “Sicuramente ti sarà già capitato di vederne qualcuna, Alec. Tua sorella Isabelle, ad esempio

Yes, she’s bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I’d avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. “Filthy inside and out.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

I’m not going to do that.””of course you’re not.” Jace said. “because you live to torture me, don’t you?””Not everything, Jace, is about you.” Clary said furiously.”Possibly,” Jace said “But you have to admit that...