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.

You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn’t a confidence booster.

Simon looked at Jordan who was looking at Maia again. She had her back to them and was talking to Luke and Jocelyn, laughing, flinging her curly hair back. “Don’t even think about it,” Simon...

I can’t believe you didn’t say you were Simon Lewis,” she said. “I thought you were just a mundane.”Simon leaned slightly away. “I am just a mundane.

I’d always hoped that when i said ‘I Love You’ to a girl, she’d say ‘I Know’ like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi

Is this Clarissa Fray?” The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. “Yeees?””Hi, I’m one of the knife-carrying hooligans you...

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

The implication was clear in the snap itself.

A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?

Oh, good. You’re starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That’s not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

That’s right. Act like I rejected you. It’s not like you tried to kill me or anything.

Against all odds, the Academy had come to feel like home. A slimy, moldy, dungeonlike home without working toilets, maybe, but home nevertheless. He and George had even named the rats that lived behind their...

Don’t talk.” Alec gestured at him with an expression of vague disgust.”Every time I look at you, I keep remembering coming in here and seeing you draped all over my sister.”Jace sat up.”I didn’t hear...

Maybe I should get my mom something,” he said bitterly. “What says ‘Thanks for throwing me out of the house and pretending I died’?” “Orchids?

So–what’s it like, being a vampire?””Aline!” Isabelle looked appalled. “You can’t just go around asking people what’s it like to be a vampire!””I don’t see why,” Aline said. “He hasn’t been a vampire that long,...

You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?” he asked.She shook her head.He didn’t seem to notice. “She said you’d break my heart,” he told her, and left.

I have a plan.” He groaned. “I was afraid of that.””My plans are not terrible.””Isabelle’s plans are terrible.” He pointed a finger at her. “Your plans are suicidal. At best.

Magnus’s eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. “Not my favorite topic, Smedley.””Simon”, said Simon. “If I’m going to die for...

So basically you’re threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don’t do what you say?

I screwed her over. I didn’t want to see her screwed over by someone else.

None of this is fair. It isn’t fair that part of your life was ripped from you. It’s not fair that you were ripped away from me. I’m so angry Simon.

Simon would have felt both honored and love, except mostly he felt weird, because he had only a few broken fragments of memory that said he knew these people at all, and a whole lifetime...

Simon grinned. “You’ve never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?””I’ve heard of dungeons,” Jace said. “Also dragons. Although they’re mostly extinct.

So it’s true what they say about warlocks, then?”Alec gave him a very unpleasant look. “What’s true?””Alexander,” said Magnus coldly, and Clary met Simon’s eyes across the table. Hers were wide, green, and full of...

Look,” Luke went on, “In all the years I’ve known him, there’s always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he’s always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed...

Does that mean you agree?”He groaned. “I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down.””Fantastic.

Hey,” said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, “do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?””Not really,” said Simon. “Magnus is wearing lederhosen.””And yet,...

You’re a public menace. You shouldn’t be allowed out on your own.

I need a bodyguard.”Simon eyed him. “Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.

Isabelle. Simon’s mouth moved to form the shape of her name, pressing it into his pillow. He’d told himself he wasn’t going to think about her, not until he was really getting somewhere in the...

Mothers,lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl

Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. “You really don’t get this bodyguard thing, do you?””I didn’t even think you liked me all that much,” said Simon. “Is this one of those...

It—It’s my bedroom!” Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position.

She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone.”Sorry about that, guys!” he yelled. “All right. I’m Eric, and this is my homeboy Matt on the drums. My first poem is called...

Alec remembers my name,” said Simon, and he set the bottle back down.

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common.””Totally awesome hair?” Simon suggested.

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....