
He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

Wherever you are, you're my best friend. You'll always be my best friend.

Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.

I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.
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[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.

I am Valentine's son. Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. You never had any right to that name. You're a ghost. And a pretender.

However, there is something you should have. Something every Shadowhunter should have."
"An obnoxious, arrogant attitude?" Simon said.

There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw

Words has the power to change us

Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.

For love is as strong as death.

My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

I should have known I'd find you out here, doing your best to turn yourself into an icicle

He has fought many battles with us" (Jace)
By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat

We can erase everything that caused you pain with its recollection

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.

You will come across few creatures that cannot be successfully defeated by the application of sufficient blunt trauma.

What are you?"
"Im a Shadowhunter...

I am, in the end, what you made me.

One must always be careful of books,

Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.

Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way ... (Jace)

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray

And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow ...

I trust Isabelle," Simon told Beatriz.

I hate it when you answer a question with a question."
"No you don't, you think it's charming.

A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.

Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay."
"I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon.

Now that you know the truth, you can never go back.

Clary found herself wondering if the forsaken were edible.

Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Check you out,' said Magnus. 'My famous boyfriend, inspiration to the masses.

Mark: "A strange evening, forsooth," he said.
Emma: "Don't you forsooth me.

Every life is finite, Will.

He wasn't perfect like Diego, but to Emma, there had never been anyone more beautiful.

So basically you're threatening to turn me into something you can sprinkle on popcorn if I don't do what you say?
(Jace, to Simon)

True love cannot die.

Tessa Herondale Carstairs," he whispered. "You should never worry about borrowing my name when you know that you can have it to keep.

I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

I'll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.'

I love you," he said.
"I don't say it often enough. I love you.

The Folk love nothing more than mortal beauty.

I told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i?
ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

All knowledge hurts.

Quip fast, die young.

Therefore you can never lose hope-hatikva-because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Feel this arm," said Simon. "Rock hard! I don't mean to brag, but it's all bone. All bone.

Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common."
"Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested.

Are you- Are you in love with me?' His smile was soft and sad. 'So much.

There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.