Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"Simon raised his eyebrow in response."Well, aside from mine of course, " Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.

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?

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are just for them.

Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.

I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet.

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.