I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with scorn and hatred. After all, I can read their rough work without turning on them like a wildebeest.

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.

I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.