You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.

When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat's paw.

For a moment she just stared, wondering if there were another girl staying here, or if Sebastian had taken to cross-dressing.

Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?

As far as I’m concerned, this is the worst thing that’s happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.

There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.