It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

It's so dark," she said lamely. "You want me to hold your hand?" Clary put both her hands behind her back like a small child. "Don't talk down to me." "Well, I could hardly talk up to you. You're too short.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed." "What? A sense of decency?

You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I'm with the band with biblical figures.

Max," Jace said. "Max, I’m so sorry.