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?

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 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.

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Having the best doesn't make you the best but producing the best makes you the best

Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]

Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.