My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me." ... She couldn't hear him laugh, but she felt his body shake. "She wouldn't say that if she knew me," he called back to her confidently. "I'm an excellent driver." -Clary & Jace, pg.289-

It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.

Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

Oh, God, the lovebirds,” Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. “I hate happy couples.

Come with me." "Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received.

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.