Yes,” Jace said, “I regret having disobeyed you.”No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon?Valentine’s face softened. “Jonathan-“”Especially,” Jace...

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...

Valentine!””You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one’s parents by their names.””What I want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name.”- Clary Fray and Valentine...

What?” For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

To love is to destroy

As Luke knelt down beside his corpse, Clary couldn’t help but remember what he had said about having loved Valentine once, about having been his closest friend. Luke, she thought with a pang. Surely he...

What about you, little girl? You going to be a Shadowhunter like your dad?”Clary tried to hide her annoyance. “No,” she said. “I’m going to be a Shadowhunter, but I’m not going to be like...

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,...

I don’t remember ordering the bride of an evil maniac,” said Magnus. “It was definitely beef and broccoli. What about you, Tessa? Did you order the bride of an evil maniac?

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....

But I don’t believe I see Valentine Morgenstern. I hear he has charisma enough to draw birds out of trees and convince them to live under the sea, is tall, devastatingly handsome, and has white-blond...

But Jocelyn Morgenstern was not the kind of woman who wept, not the kind of woman who broke, or Valentine would have broken her long since.

Yes,” Jace said, unable to help himself, “I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth’s water water supply – I was covering that...

And I bet you murdered Michael Wayland and his little boy, too. Threw their bones in with my grandparents’ so that my mother would think you and Jace were dead. Put your necklace around Michael...

At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine’s eyes.”Ave atque vale, Shadowhunter,” he said.

You are interfering in my business, warlock.” Magnus spat blood into his face. “You are torturing a child in my city, Shadowhunter. […] I thought we were playing a game where we said what the...

But isn’t that what love is, Clarissa? Ownership? ‘I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,’ as the Song of Songs goes.””No. And don’t quote the Bible at me. I don’t think you get...