Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

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

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets.

Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to decide what they would do"-Cassandra Clare

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.