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

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

In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.

Instead of allowing wealth and resources to change us, we must choose to allow God to change our way of thinking about wealth and resources

Love does as it undoes. It goes after with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak. Her happiness was his unhappiness and that's the unfair way it was.

Keep dreaming is good sometimes- but don't dreaming too much cause its gonna make you stop dreaming suddenly

There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl."

If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?