I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words, " muttered Magnus.

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.

Irony of life – GOD will always make you do things which you never want to.

our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.