I told you to bring me to Alec! Backstabbing Judas.

Hello?" Isabelle called from the other side. "Simon, is your diva moment over? I need to talk to Jace.

That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.

If you’re being punished,” Clary said, “then so am I. Because all those things you felt, I felt them too, but we can’t—we have to stop feeling this way, because it’s our only chance.” Jace’s hands were tight at his sides. “Our only chance for what?” “To be together at all. Because otherwise we can’t ever be around each other, not even just in the same room, and I can’t stand that. I’d rather have you in my life even as a brother than not at all

Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.