Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.

It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing.

I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

He's got a great sense of humor for a guy who never says anything.

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand?