It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.

i was joking with isabelle about vampires right before it happened. just trying to make her laugh, you know? what freaks out jewish vanpires? silver stars of david? chopped liver? check for eighteen dollars?