When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost always wrong.

No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.

You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.

There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.

I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.