I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said...

The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

You'll be just fine, " he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.

You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

Even if it's L.A. and it's warmer, we're not supposed to be revving up right now. I don't like everyone's energy around [winter] time of year.

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

I would never feel comfortable doing my own makeup for a party or a big event, that's for sure. I'm really good at doing it to go to the grocery store.