the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin.On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. Is that a coatrack?Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful.Yes, said Jace. Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.

Hey, Carlos, the Professor says when he walks in. How was REACH?It sucked.Can you be more specific? my guardian asks.It really sucked, I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.

If you say —we're in this together,' I'm going to hurl.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.It's really funny.

Awww, Minho said. That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.

Sebastian just smiled. "I could hear your heart beating," he said softly. "When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?""That you seem to be dating my dad?" Jace shrugged. You're a little young for him, to be honest.—"What?" For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.

Malachi scowled. I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane.They didn't, Magnus said. Your wards are down.Really? the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. I hadn't noticed.Magnus looked concerned. That's terrible. Someone should have told you. He glanced at Luke. Tell him the wards are down.

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Alec looked at her and shook his head. How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?Isabelle shrugged philosophically. I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense.

It's sarcasm, Josh.—"Sarcasm?""It's from the Greek, sarkasmos. To bite the lips. It means that you aren't really saying what you mean, but people will get your point. I invented it, Bartholomew named it.""Well, if the village idiot named it, I'm sure it's a good thing.""There you go, you got it.""Got what?""Sarcasm.""No, I meant it.""Sure you did.""Is that sarcasm?""Irony, I think.""What's the difference?""I haven't the slightest idea.""So you're being ironic now, right?""No, I really don't know.""Maybe you should ask the idiot.""Now you've got it.""What?"—Sarcasm.

By the Angel, Jace said, looking the demon up and down. I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell.Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth.I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business, Jace went on, smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked?Jace: I was following you.Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me?

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.