Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa

How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.

I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.

You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?” Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.