Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.

He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

Aren't you, uh..." Clary searched for the right word. "Reproducing?

I need a bodyguard." Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms.

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.