“It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.”

“I'ts a girl" Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”

“They had just showed up, Amatis had said. Which meant Simon had spent the entire night at Isabelle's. She stared at him. He didn't look any different.”

“We shouldn’t,” protested Isabelle. “The Clave has a plan.”“The Clave has the collective intelligence of a pineapple,” said Jace.Alec blinked up at them. “Jace is right.”Isabelle turned on her brother. “What do you know? You weren’t even paying attention.”“I was,” Alec said, injured. “I said Jace was right.”“Yeah, but there’s like a 90% chance of me being right most of the time, so that’s not proof you were listening,” said Jace. “That’s just a good guess.”

“Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.”

“Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea.""Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.”

“Screw the Silent Brothers.""No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky.""Isabelle!”