Isabelle was exactly Simon's type—tall, glamorous, and beautiful. Come to think of it, maybe that was everyone's type.

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.

No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

There were some memories, though, that never faded.

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than her.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.