Isabelle looked at him thoughtfully. "Did you seriously jump thirty feet out of a Malachi Configuration? Did he, Alec?" "He did," Alec confirmed. "I've never seen anything like it." "I've never seen anything like this." Jace lifted a ten-inch dagger from the floor. One of Isabelle's pink brassiers was spread on the wickedly sharp tip. Isabelle snached it off, scowling.

Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.

If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

I want to kiss you one more time before I die.