Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

If you do not intend to help us," she said, "then leave this house. Dawn is coming." "I am not a vampire." Magnus said. "I shall not disappear with the light" "You will if I kill you before the sun comes up.

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Jem, Cecily thought, with a pang in her heart. Her brother had always looked to him as a kind of North Star, a compass that would ever point him toward the right decision. She had never quite thought of her brother as lucky before, and certainly would not have expected to do so today, and yet-and yet in a way he had been. To always have someone to turn to like that, and not to worry constantly that one was looking to the wrong stars.