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

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.

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

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

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

I learn life from the poets.

My two greatest loves were, of course, Daphne and Hyacinthus, but when you're a god as popular as

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

When I push, the top part of the leg goes ahead of the bottom part, and you can hear a big plonk when it comes back. My caddie said 'What the hell was that?!

If you're wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.

More like Cross blew your circuits during one of his sexathons. Still can’t get over that man’s stamina. Wish he’d swing my way and wear me out.