To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

In some ways, we've been through something no one else can ever understand but the two of us... And it made me realize. We are always and absolutely better together.

She wondered why she’d ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.

How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.