Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.

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)

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.

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?

They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.