Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.

I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise surrounded by fragile glass walls, my daughter. Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you it was an illusion. And all the time the demons waited with their weapons of blood and terror to smash the glass and pull you free of the lie.

Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic.

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

Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.