One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.

Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?” “Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.

Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Being a Silent Brother is life, Clary Fray. But if you mean I remember my life before the Brotherhood, I do. Clary took a deep breath. “Were you ever in love? Before the Brotherhood? Was there ever anyone you would have died for?” There was a long silence. Then: Two people, said Brother Zachariah. There are memories that time does not erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.