Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it.

Dear Alec & Magnus, It's Izzy. Got your card. Glad you're having fun. Nothing's happening here-Clary's mom is marrying some werewolf. I think you guys should get married too. I'm thinking about planing it. I love planing parties. -Isabelle

How generous the universe could be, when he wanted to be!

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive.

Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex." "At least you know he's still available.