Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend." "We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested

Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea." "Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle.

This was a voice that drew out memories stretched thin by years of recollection, like paper unfolded and refolded too many times. A voice that brought back, like a wave, the memory of another time on this bridge, a night so long ago, everything black and silver and the river rushing away under her feet.

Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart

I don't know who Azazel is," he said. "Isn't he the cat from The Smurfs?" He cast about , but Isabelle just looked up and rolled her eyes at him. "Clary?" he thought Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?" "Not yet," he thought back. "Is Azazel the cat from The Smurfs?" There was a long pause. "That's Azrael, Simon. And no more using the magic rings for Smurf questions.