I think, ” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.

Turns out there's more than one way to achieve your dreams.

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself

The freshness of a smile and the fragrance of a perfume often define the personality of a woman.

Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

You have some balls."Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment...

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.