Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.

Don’t worry, hero. If the vamp shows up, I’m here to protect you.”“Great, I can hide behind your massive ego.

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It was the name of heroes.

She is like the white skies, the shine, the sun and its rhyme.While he is the darkness that blinds, the moon, the wolf in mysterious confines.

Real love when it comes, it doesn't look like anything you'd expect.

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart.

Won't you ride my white horse?

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?