Haven’t you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?
He needed the release of the tears, she thought but he’d forgotten the mechanisms of weeping after so many years of holding back.
Voices urging her to try, to reach into herself, to draw out the power. Voices that could turn hard and cold at the slight provocation. Voices that wheedled and threatened and lied.
Emma was all the good in him, he thought, all that burned bright. But then the pain had come, and the sense of something wrong.
The most powerful warlock I’ve ever seen?” Alec snarled. “She cut through your wards like tissue paper. And my man would eat you for breakfast.
There’s more to parentage than blood.
What did you say that name was?” she demanded, turning to Jace. “The name in Clary’s head.” “I didn’t,” said Jace. “At least, I didn’t finish it. It’s Magnus Bane.” He grinned at Alec mockingly. “Rhymes with ‘overcareful pain in the ass.’” Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like “ducking glass mole.” Clary smiled inwardly.
He’d missed one, he thought. Chance, circumstances, determination- and faith.
His whole life had been built around exerting control over himself, over the mask he showed the world, and now it was cracking.
Mio padre credeva in un Dio giusto. Deus vult era il suo motto: “Dio lo vuole”. Era il motto dei Crociati, e i Crociati andarono in battaglia e furono massacrati, proprio come mio padre. E quando l’ho visto morto in una pozza di sangue ho capito che non avevo smesso di credere in Dio. Avevo solo smesso di credere che gliene importasse qualcosa di noi. Dio forse esiste, Clary, o forse no, ma non credo che abbia importanza. In ogni caso ce la dobbiamo cavare da soli.
It’s not my fault, that I’m flat chested and a midget!
If your head fell off,” Tessa said, “the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown.
There’s plenty of room for me to hate them all.
I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners.
Lack of certification hardly proves inteligence.
Gentleness was not something she would ever have associated with Will. But it was there, in the touch of his hand on her cheek, in the softness of his voice, in his eyes when he looked at her. It was the way she had always dreamed a boy would look at her. But she never dreamed up someone as beautiful as Will, not in all her imaginings.
Souls that love each other are drawn to each other in their next lives.
Sometimes I think the mundanes will do more harm to each other than any demon could ever do to them.
His fingers stroked her wrist lightly, making her shiver. “You are home for me now.
Yes, because when you are, girls can’t see you, because you’re invisible.” Simon shook his head. “You’re a public menace. You shouldn’t be allowed out on your own.