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“I wanted to tell you that lately I’ve been cross-dressing. Also, I’m sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.”
“Jesus!” Luke exclaimed. “Actually, it’s just me,” said Simon. “Although I’ve been told the resemblance is startling.”
“Come, my faux juggernaut, my nefarious loins! Slather every protuberance with arid zeal!”
“You’re not gay, are you?” Simon’s greenish color deepened. “If I were, I would dress better.”
if they’re left-handed like I am—when
She saw Luke, standing atop a pile of bones. Jace with white feathered wings sprouting out of his back, Isabelle sitting naked with her whip curled around her like a net of gold rings, Simon with crosses burned into the palms of his hands. Angels, falling and burning. Falling out of the sky.
“Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you.” Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. “Of course they are,” he said. “I am stunningly attractive.” “Haven’t you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?” “Only from ugly people,” Jace confided. “The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
“I’m not like other guys.
“If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you’d be twice as funny as you are.”
“Dear God,” said Jace, “the dread hour is nigh.” Hodge looked alarmed. “I—I—I had a very filling breakfast,” he stammered. “I mean lunch. A filling lunch. I couldn’t possibly eat—” “I threw out the soup,” Isabelle said. “And ordered Chinese from that place downtown.” Jace unhitched himself from the desk and stretched. “Great. I’m starved.” “I might be able to eat a bite,” admitted Hodge meekly.
“It wouldn’t be my move,” Jace agreed. “First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.”
“He’s an ifrit,” Jace explained. “They’re warlocks with no magic.
“That’s an awful story,” she said indignantly. Jace had his legs pulled up, his chin on his knees. “Is it?” he said ruminatively.
‘To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.’ ”
“I wouldn’t feel too sorry for him,” Jace said. “That’s probably the closest he’s ever gotten to second base.”
“He just looks dim-witted. Really, his intelligence is quite average.” His
six, seven
“Did your mom have any other words of wisdom about me?” “Yeah.” He returned her smile with one just as crooked. “But I’m not going to tell you what they were.”
She is so oblivious it actually hurts 😭😭
Clary found herself wondering if the Forsaken were edible.
