Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

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.

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel."

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.