Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." "Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive.

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Who said we were owed happiness?

If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.