Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope - hatikva - because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

I am a demon hunter. Clearly, I am not afraid of the dark.

She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered if all that hatred didn't just stem from the fact that she was jealous. It must be nice not worrying that every time one of your family members walked out the door, they'd never come back.

nothing ventured, nothing gained.

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too