Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?" Aline looked up. "Climb the demon towers?" She laughed. "No, no one ever does that. It's totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, why would you want to?" Aline, Isabelle thought, did not have much imagination. She herself could think of lots of reasons why someone might want to climb the demon towers, if only to spit gum down on passerbys below.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

Hiding here, are you? That’s awkward.” “Why?” “Because I had intended to hide here myself.” “You may hide here with me, if you wish.

Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.

Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him.

A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours.