If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.

Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.

I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I'd ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?" He ran his hands through his hair, making it stick up in loops and curls that Clary ached to smooth down. "You came for me," he said. "You saved me when almost everyone else had given up, and even the people who hadn't given up didn't know what to do. You think I don't know what you went through?

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

Consider it a race to see who kills you first, Daylighter-Valentine, the other Downworlders, or the Clave.

Hello?" Isabelle called from the other side. "Simon, is your diva moment over? I need to talk to Jace.

Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.