Love is a contradiction... Jace to Clary

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

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.

There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the light to burn away.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

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

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.