You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now." Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?" Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.