It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away.

I think when we make choices—for each choice is individual of the choices we have made before—we must examine not only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.

I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.