Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?” “That you seem to be dating my dad?” Jace shrugged. "You’re a little young for him, to be honest.” “What?” For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

Will remembered the two of them, running through the dark streets of London, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, seraph blades gleaming in their hands; hours in the training room, shoving each other into mud puddles, throwing snowballs at Jessamine from behind an ice fort in the courtyard, asleep like puppies on the rug in front of the fire.

Pulvis et umbra sumsu." ~ Horace, Odes ("We are dust and Shadows")

Interesting" he said. "You know, Simon never mentioned that his roommate was a werewolf.

Clary- "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." "Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive.