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.

It’s precious

I don’t remember everything,” he said.”Not yet. But I remember you.”He brought her hand up, touched the gold ring on her right index finger, the Fair Folk metal warm to the touch.”Clary,” he said.”You’re Clary....

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...

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

It doesnt 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, he grinned as Isabelle pulled Simon’s shirt...

I thought you were never coming back and I’d have to be pals with Jon Cartwright. Then I thought about being pals with Jon, was overwhelmed with despair, and decided to find one of the...

This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a...

When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, ‘I’m the most elite warrior!’ ‘No, I’m the most elite warrior!’ And today you’re playing Halo and giving each other props for good...

The Angel blade burns you, just as God’s name chokes you,” said Valentine, his cool voice sharp as crystal. “They say that those who die upon its point will achieve the gates of heaven. In...

Wait a second. Do you think that„s likely to be required?

I can’t believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends.

Simon stood up and said the first thing that popped into his mind. “I just wanted to tell you that we all really enjoyed that beef stew they saved for dinner. You should serve that...

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...

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

Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex.””At least you know he’s still available.

Because’, she said, ‘your problems are not real problems. You’re dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That’s like…having rock-star problems.”Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an...

I don’t have a reason to lie to you. Not now.’ Jace’s gaze remained steady. ‘And quit baring your fangs at me. It’s making me nervous.”Good,’ Simon said. ‘If you want to know why it’s...

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...

The warlock’s gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn’t help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever:Someday you...

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?

That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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...

The problem was that Simon did not know how to pack like a badass.

So you just came here to torture me and talk about yourself?” Simon demanded.”Oh, Simon, Simon, Simon,” said Jace. “You may not remember, but that’s kind of our thing.

We?” Simon looked at him in disbelief. “Are you ever going home?””What, bored with my company already?” “Let me ask you something,” Simon said. “Do you find me fascinating to be around?””What was that?” Jace...

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...

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.

It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

Therefore you can never lose hope-hatikva-because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

(Raphael) “I know why you refuse me, Daylighter, and it is not out of some pretended sense of rejection. You are so involved with the Shadowhunters, you think you are one of them. We have...

My head feels round,” Simon said sadly. “So round.

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,...

You want a piece of all this fabulousness?” He gestured to himself. “Well, my best friend comes along with it. I wouldn’t cut you out of my life, Clary, any more than I would cut...

Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

I’m glad to be classed with the criminal element.

You don’t need to worry, though. He’s not my type.””I don’t think I’ve ever heard a girl say that before,” said Simon. “I thought Jace was the kind of guy who was everyone’s type.

This time he was dreaming of a VIP room backstage at the club, filled with champagne and coffee, a gaggle of groupies trying to break down the door so that – in the dream, Simon...

Isabelle!” Simon called.”Stop throwing clothes at me! Just because you’re a Shadowhunter and I’m a vampire doesn’t mean we can never happen. Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a –...

It was strange to become a vampire ,to be presented with what could only be described as an eternal life, and then to die anyway when you’re sixteen.

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...

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?” He laughed bitterly. “Because I forsee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin piña colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin.

Simon?” she asked. “I have a stupid question.””What is it?””Did you sleep with Isabelle?”Simon made a choking sound. Clary swiveled slowly around to look at him.”Are you okay?” she asked.”I think so,” he said, recovering...

Alec slid his hand from Jace’s arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.

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

I care about you,” Simon said. “I always cared about you.

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...