Clearly,’ said Luke, ‘something’s going on that I don’t know about.’Simon looked over at him. ‘Sometimes I think that’s the motto of my life.

Simon blinked himself awake, confused, for a moment, why he was in a dungeon that smelled of dung rather than his Brooklyn bedroom – then, once he got his bearings, confused all over again about...

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...

True. I’d always hoped that when I finally said ‘I love you’ to a girl, she’d say ‘I know’ back, like Leia did to Han in Return of the Jedi.

Come on guys, you cant fight like this forever””Actually,” Simon said, raising his hand,”I can”.Jace made a weird noise and I realized he was trying not to laugh-which by the way, wasn’t working.

The first morning Simon had been at Amatis’s house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the doorstep with a live cat for him. “Blood,” he’d said, in a heavily accented voice. “For you. Fresh!”Simon...

He’s not in a very good mood,” said Luke, pausing in front of a closed door. “I shut him up in Freaky Pete’s office after he nearly killed half my pack with his bare hands....

Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. “Blood,” he said, half to himself. “I had a dream two nights...

Here’s a hot tip: Most girls don’t like being stalked.

At least Kyle wasn’t home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

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...

Every time they saw him, they recognized him and knew him and expected things of him. And every time he came up blank. It was like watching someone digging where they knew they’d buried something...

With a sigh she reached into her pocket and drew out a small velvet bag, which upended on the table. Two gold rings fell out, landing with a soft clink. Simon looked at them puzzled....

Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. “How much of that did you hear?””Enough to gather that we’re going to a...

Jordan doesn’t really care about the blood,” Simon said now. “His whole thing is about me being comfortable with what I am. Get in touch with your inner vampire, blah, blah.”Clary slid in next to...

Hey, Clary. You take care of yourself,” he said. “I know you can.” He paused. “And take care of Jace, that poor, helpless blond.”Jace made an obscene gesture, which actually did feel familiar to Simon,...

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

Maybe you should call him,’ Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.

That’s all true, but I’m not doing it.”Raphael looked incredulous. “Why not?”The words exploded out of Simon. “Are you kidding me? Because you have never done one single thing for me in the entire time...

When He’d told his mother he wanted to go to military school so he could though up, she’d given him a strange look. (Not as strange as if he’d said he wanted to go to...

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....

Basia coquum,” Simon said. “Or whatever their motto is.””It’s ‘Descensus Averno facilis est.’ ‘The descent into hell is easy,” said Alec. “You just said “Kiss the cook.””Dammit,” said Simon. “I knew Jace was screwing with...

You ought to eat something.” (Simon)”Look who’s talking.” (Jace)”I’m out of blood right now,” (Simon)”Unless you’re offering.” (Simon)”No, thanks. We’ve been down that road before, and I think we’re better off asjust friends.” (Jace)

actually am.

Being a rat? No. First it was disorienting. I was suddenly at ankle-level with everyone. I thought I’d drunk a shrinking potion, but I couldn’t figure out why I had this urge to chew used...

He’s my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

Do you think it’s possible to do something so bad, even if you didn’t mean to do it, that you can never come back from it? That no one can forgive you?”Luke looked at him...

The moment they met, Simon had decided that if looks matched personalities, Jon Cartwright would look like a horse’s ass. Unfortunately, there is no justice in the world, and he looked instead like a walking...

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...

No one could be that annoying without some kind of supernatural assistance.

Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?””I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy’s house at night and throw up...

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn’t realize was precious until you lost it.

With the whole Mark of Cain thing, does that mean if I accidentally kick you during the night, I get kicked in the shins seven times by an invisible force?

Magnus snapped his fingers again, menacingly. “Get up.””Or you’ll be the next one to go up in smoke,” said Simon with relish.”There’s no need to clarify my finger snap. The implication was clear in the...

One of the things he’d always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny...

Kyle want to be a rockstar. I think hes working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna.””I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Simon had to save the world, and the rest of us get in because we have the right surname?” George asked lightly. He winked at Simon. “Hard luck on you, mate.

He had to escape. He had to go and become a hero, the way he had been once.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...