Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.

khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.

Will tossed his apple core into the air, at the same time drawing a knife from his belt and throwing it. The knife and the apple scaled across the room together, somehow managing to stick into the wall just beside Gabriel's head, the knife driven cleanly through the core and into the wood. "Say that again," said Will. "And i'll darken your daylights for you.

It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick. -pg.68-

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

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

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.