Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.

But though hast come and all will surely change.

So time continued on slowly and painfully. Perhaps the old analogy of being a record stuck on repeat had become too dated

Stand in your own two shoes.

being funny is actually all about thinking "what if ?" in a creative way.

The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to establish a body that is less susceptible to outside influences – a stable platform to build on.

Just live every day like it's your last day and be the best person that you can be.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

Just Listen an excerpt

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.