No one can live with nothing.

Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade

Everyone knows that quote because of the Doors." Jace looked at her blankly. "The Doors. They were a band." "If you say so," he said. "I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work." He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned.

I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.