Perhaps," he said, "we should discuss our arrangements, then.

Dear Alec and Magnus, This is the first postcard of five. Don't freak out or anything, but I need you to send me $150,000 to cover the cost of: 1) Two diamanté crowns 2) 20 peacocks 3) 300 chocolate lollipops in the shape of your heads 4) My dress 5) 500 lbs of glitter 6) One white horse (More to come in other cards) -Isabelle

My boyfriend always says that if it weren't for him I'd probably get rid of my apartment and live nowhere, and he's right.

It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.

Sometimes when she looks at him that way he finds himself almost blushing; a feeling so strange he almost doesn’t recognize it. Jace Wayland doesn’t blush.

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.