Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just go around asking people what it's like to be a vampire.

I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.

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

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

Every science is made up entirely of anomalies rearranged to fit.

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.