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.

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.

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.

Bitten? You mean you’re a-“”A werewolf,” said the girl. “Like everyone else here. Except you, and the asshole. And the asshole’s sister.

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...

He put his sister’s card in his pocket. He left home for a strange new life and carried her love with him, as he had once before.

I was trying to make you jealous!” Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. “You’re so stupid, Clary. You’re so stupid, can’t you see anything?”She stared at him in bewilderment. What...

Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart,” Valentine’s voice was soft. “One simple motion. Nothing you haven’t done before.”Jace met his father’s stare with a level gaze....

The rat, huddled in the hollow of her palms, squeaked glumly. Delighted, she hugged him to her chest. “Oh poor baby,” she crooned, almost as if he really were a pet. “Poor Simon, it’ll be...

He tried not to hug her too hard, even though she was kind of hugging him too hard. In fact, she was pretty much crushing his rib cage. He didn’t mind, though.

So you’re trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she’s unhappy in the first place is you,” said Simon, not very kindly. “That seems contradictory, doesn’t it?””Love is a contradiction,” said...

I’m not sure you’re quite sensible of the honor I’m doing you,” Jace said. “you’ll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute.” “Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

There was a time, not so long ago, when Simon Lewis had been convinced that all gym teachers were actually demons escaped from some hell dimension, nourishing themselves on the agonies of uncoordinated youth. Little...

I don’t carol, said Simon. I’m Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.

I’ve got the Mark of Cain,” said Simon. “That means nothing can kill me, right?””You can kill yourself,” Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. “As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if...

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.

You’re a Shadowhunter,” he said. “You know how to deal with injuries.” He slid his stele across the table toward her. “Use it.””No,” Clary said, and pushed the stele back across the table at him.Jace...

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

Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?””It’s my job.””It’s a hazard of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose.

I have a dress fitting to get to at three.’ (Simon)’Cool,’ said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. ‘Get them to make you something in red. It’s totally...

Remember, children, all the stories are true.”Simon tried to wrap his head around the idea that there might, somewhere in Germany, be a large bean stalk with an angry giant at the top.

Yes, you bit me, yes, I kind of liked it, yes, let’s not talk about it again, said Jace. You’re not a vampire anymore. Focus.

Now shut up. I want to sleep,” she said, and she curled up against his side and closed her eyes.Somehow, now, they fit, where they hadn’t before.Nothing was awkward, or poking into him, or banging...

If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I’ll let you know,” Simon was getting fed up. “Look, did you actually ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare...

Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.

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.

Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.””I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,” said Simon.

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...

Anyway, my point is that I am not attracted to you in the slightest.

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...

You have a book that’s also a face?

Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked?Jace: I was following...

But sleep didn’t come. She could hear Jace’s soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn’t what was keeping her awake. She was thinking of Simon, leaving for a house that no longer felt...

But that’s not what you said when she walked into the room,” said Simon quietly. “You said, ‘Why didn’t you ever tell me I had a brother?'””I know.” Clary yanked a blade of grass out...

Looking at either of them caused a pang in his chest. Looking at both of them started a dull, steady ache.