When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

You're Valentine's son. I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming. Maybe not at the moment.

The world is a hungry place, and Anna will feed it beauty.

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond.

Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.