I should have guessed you were Jace's sister,' he said. 'You both have the same artistic talent.'Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. 'Jace can draw?'Nah.' When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. 'I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

Dear God, woman,'said Will. 'Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?

Not everything is about you,' Clary said furiously.'Possibly,' Jace said, 'but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

...Wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

Honestly I don't know why I have these parties'Because of your cat'That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort.

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.