That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.

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.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.

You're not going,"he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yurs passes, you are not going to Idris." Clary felt as if he'd slapped her. She had thought he'd be pleased. She'd run all the way from the hospital to the Institute to tell him, and here he was standing in the entryway glaring at her with a look of grim death. "But you're going.

Jace laughed, that soft rich sound Clary loved so much. "I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.