You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.

And I think that you do not understand that sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness.

If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.

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.

She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl's eyes.

I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.

Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing.