With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.
If I’d just listened – just taken one second to listen – it wouldn’t have happened.
She wondered why she’d ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.
The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday.
Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.
With God on your side, what does luck matter?
Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.
Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.
Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.
It didn’t matter, anyway. There was only one thing she could ask for, in the end, only one real choice. She raised her eyes to the Angel’s. “Jace,” she said.
I love you, Clary wanted to say. And, I would do it again. I would always ask for you.
I think he’s jealous.
Concerned about my safety, are you? -William Herondale.
There was a time I thought I was a ferret.
Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.
Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself – but he lacked Will’s tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.
Magic is dangerous- but love is more dangerous still.
He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption.
He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.
Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?