All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn’t desire his kiss, she won’t be free.

After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.

There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

It made him feel indispensable and needed - even if the fact that Jocelyn didn't appear to care wheather he slept in her daughter's bed or not did underscore that Clary's mother apparently regarded him as about sexually threatening as a goldfish.

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away