Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.' 'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.

I knew you were crazy, but I didn't realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!!

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

You have a power of incalculable value. You need ask nothing of anyone. You need depend on no one. You are free, and that freedom is a gift.