You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.

She gritted her teeth. She was here with Sebastian, on her way to see a powerful warlock, and mentally she was maundering on about the way Jace smelled.

Life was an uncertain thing, and there were some moments one wished to remember, to imprint upon one's mind that the memory might be taken out later, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book, and admired and recollected anew. - Sophie and Gideon Lightwood

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.