Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn't matter so you don't have to worry about it.

Fear is an excellent motivator.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

Alec slid his hand from Jace's arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it.

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.