Have you never seen a movie? Read a comic book? That’s always how it starts – just a little temptation, just a little taste of evil, and then BAM, your light saber turns red and...

Be a hero, Simon,” Simon muttered bitterly, remembering the life Magnus Bane had dangled before him in their first meeting – or at least, the first one Simon could remember. “Have an adventure, Simon. How...

Jace: Back from you breakfast meeting, I see. I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that. Simon: Medium clever. Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters...

Also, I’m sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

Of course, everyone’s going to freak out when you show up at school.””Freak out? Why?””Because you’re so much hotter now than when you left.” She shrugged. “It’s true. Must be a vampire thing.”Simon looked baffled....

Well, not in this case. He reached into the Inquisitor and he twisted…” Clary shuddered. “There was a lot of blood.””Like a special bonus for you,” Jace said to Simon.Simon ignored this.

There are worse things,” Magnus observed.

I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I‘m sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.

I’ll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I’ve experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

Ms. Loss…,’ said Simon. ‘Can I ask you—what you’re doing?’‘Dean Penhallow has decided that she is not going to order fresh food supplies until all this delicious, nutritious soup has been consumed. So I am...

Being too cool for school was Jace’s thing.

I mean more dead than usual.

The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and…”And his arm looked...

And that – he pointed ahead – is the road to Hell. That’s where we’re going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon

Is your inner vampire different from your…outer vampire?”Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora.”So your inner vampire is Magnus?

No. That’s Clary; shes’s my best friend.” Simon pocketed his phone. “And she has a boyfriend. Like, really, really, really has a boyfriend. The nuclear bomb of boyfriends. Trust me on this one.

What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn’t a very attractive woman for her age.

Very tight.Very leather.

Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every one of them is looking to be a hero. We are all hoping for it, and trying for it, and...

You know what? Don’t explain. Just—put your clothes on, both of you.

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...