Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming. Maybe not at the moment.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.