I can only assume, " said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

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.

Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.