There is more to someone being lovable than the way they look.

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

He broke up with me." "Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box." "No one has a boom box anymore. That was the eighties.

I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

All Lightwoods look the same to me—