Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary- not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don't want to." ~Jace Wayland
Cassandra ClareHow had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these peopleโto people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?
Cassandra ClareAnd quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous." "Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood." "It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand.
Cassandra ClareThere are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
Cassandra ClareA lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real world." But it doesn't really work that way, as I found out. You have to come up with just as consistent an internal cosmology and magic system as you would if you were writing high fantasy.
Cassandra Clare