You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a llama into the place where you sleep and make sure that it urinates on everything you possess.

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

Tess?” A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.