If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks.

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

A fickle lover, sleep takes us as it will, when it wants, and how. Sensing her desperate need, however, it draws Corrie deeply into its embrace, somewhere between her tears and terror.

Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

People say the darkness is where secrets are best hidden. Night time brings clarity and focus to owls, even if the aperture of this vision comes with a stigma.

True happiness is a gift from God, find your happy place and stay there.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.

A strong team is a group of people that feel like one nation

Something snapped inside Maryse. “He is not a Herondale. He is a Lightwood. Jace Lightwood. He’s my son.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

I don't think Mitt Romney is a smart person. I never have thought he was a smart person. But the Mormons are very smart people.

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.