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.

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)

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?

molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves

You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation.

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.