How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

There were some memories, though, that never faded.

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)

I'm the type of person who wakes up at 12 AM just to write down a sudden idea that gets in my head. I have a never ending imagination.

I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

When it’s time, it’s time … and it’s time.