Happy Birthday Carla!

Happy Birthday!!!! We know how much you love Jace, so we're providing you with a little bit of Jace snark. We hope you have a wonderful day! We wish we could be in London celebrating with you.

(this picture was made by Pixie)

"That's right." It was Jace. Clary saw him, at the blurred edge of her vision, as he moved toward her and put a hand on her shoulder, turning her to face him. "It's just a kiss," he said, and though his tone was harsh, his hands were inexplicably gentle. She let him turn her, looked up at him. His eyes were very dark, perhaps because it was so dim down here in the Court, perhaps because of something else. She could see her reflection in each of his dilated pupils, a tiny image of herself inside his eyes. He said, "You can close your eyes and think of England, if you like."

"I've never been to England," she said, but she shut her eyelids. She could feel the dark heaviness of her clothes, cold and itchy against her skin, and the cloying sweet air of the cave, colder yet, and the weight of Jace's hands on her shoulders, the only things that were warm. And then he kissed her.

-City of Ashes, pages 172-173 (The Seelie Court Kiss), The Seelie Court Queen, Jace and Clary