Cassandra Clare

[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. 'A miracle,' he said. 'You got him to speak.'Just to shout at me, really,' said Tessa. 'Not quite loaves and fishes.

Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—.

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.

I guess it’s true what they say,' observed Jace. 'There are no straight men in the trenches.'That’s atheists, jackass,' said Simon furiously. 'There are no atheists in the trenches.

One cannot judge a man for the sins of his family.

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.

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?'I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.

Trains are great dirty smoky things,' said Will. 'You won't like it.' Tessa was unmoved. 'I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?' 'I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it.' 'But think how entertaining for sightseers,' said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.

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 they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.