I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

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.

With natural law there is no flaw, we must act in truth and be smart.”Grampa Foster, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Don't measure the height of your Christmas tree. Measure the abundance of the love present in your heart! Have a Blessed Christmas!