Isabelle.It was always Isabelle.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Well, I’m not kissing the mundane,” said Jace. “I’d rather stay down here and rot.””Forever?” said Simon. “Forever’s an awfully long time.”Jace raised his eyebrows. “I knew it,” he said. “You want to kiss me,...

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved...

I don’t know who Azazel is,” he said. “Isn’t he the cat from The Smurfs?” He cast about , but Isabelle just looked up and rolled her eyes at him.”Clary?” he thoughtHer voice came through,...

You don’t know her, Simon. I mean, not anymore.

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

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...

No. You don’t get to call me Izzy, you don’t send me letters, you don’t follow me into dark corridors and try to save me from rats.””Trust me, we see a rat, it’s every man...

Simon: I love you Isabelle Lightwood! I love you and I will not go away until you tell me you love me too!Isabelle: Take your clothes and go!Simon: Isabelle! Stop throwing clothes at me! Just...

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

Where’s Simon?” Clary interrupted.Isabelle wobbled. “He’s a rat,” she said darkly.Did he do something to you?” Alec was full of brotherly concern. “Did he touch you? If he tried anything-“No, Alec,” Isabelle said irritably. “Not...

We want you to tell us about vampires.”Simon grinned. “What do you want to know? Scariest is Eli in Let the Right One In, cheesiest is late-era Lestat, most underrated is David Bowie in The...

Thank you, Simon, I appreciate that.” Luke opened the pizza box and, finding it empty, shut it with a sigh. “Though you did eat all the pizza.””I only had five slices,” Simon protested, leaning his...

I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.

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,...

The nod means ‘I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass.

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...

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...

So, technically,” Simon said, “even though Jace isn’t actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.

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...

I wouldn’t change it,” Simon said. “I wouldn’t give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn’t know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that...

Simon’s band never actually produced any music. Mostly they sat around in Simon’s living room, fighting about potential names and band logos. She sometimes wondered if any of them could actually play an instrument. ‘What’s...

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.

But you’ve never drunk fresh blood. Have you?”Simon raised his eyebrows in response.”Well, aside from mine, of course,” Jace said. “And I’m sure my blood is fan-tastic.

Maureen clapped her hands together. “Oh,” she said in her elfin little voice. “It’s pretty.” “Pretty?” Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. “Maureen, what the hell-

You couldn’t know how much going away had changed you until you tried to go home.

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...

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...

You shouldn’t do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn’t be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days...

You’ve never seemed to really need anyone, Clary. You’ve always been so… contained. All you’ve ever needed is your pencils and your imaginary worlds. So many times I’ve had to say things six, seven times...

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’....

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn’t you have done that on a night I didn’t have a date? That’s most nights, in case you’re...

History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

I had some feelings,” said Simon.””Do feel free to agonize about it on your own time.

No,” said Simon. “I know we’re not much compared to you, but we don’t kill our friends. We try to save them. If Heaven didn’t want it that way, we ought to have been given...

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...

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....

and she dumped him too. At least she said she was going to. Tough break, man.

I have a feeling you’re right, Sherwin.”Simon. My name is Simon.

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

If you’ve reached this message that means our boy Simon is out partying. But please don’t fight among yourselves. There’s always enough Simon to go around.” There was a muffled yell, some laughter, and then...

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,...

It was a little sexy, Simon said. He felt much better, having fed, and couldn’t help but poke at Alec a bit. It wasn’t, said Alec. I had some feelings, said Simon.

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...

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...

What have you done to my cat?” Magnus demanded… “You drank his blood, didn’t you? You said you weren’t hungry!”Simon was indignant. “I did not drink his blood. He’s fine!” He poked the Chairman in...

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...

You’re not gay, are you?”Simon’s greenish color deepened. “If I were, I would dress better.