My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on the habit of writing and it will become a lifelong one. And find a place to write where you are physically comfortable. You can't concentrate if you aren't. Ernest Hemingway could only write standing up, and Truman Capote could only write lying down!

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain.

I know there are monsters on this earth,' said Tessa. 'You cannot tell me otherwise. I have seen them.

Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." Jace stood, hauling Raphael upright, jamming the tip of his knife between Raphael's shoulder blades.

Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering