We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

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

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

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?

Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

The investment game is getting more and more competitive.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.