Cassandra Clare

Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

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

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone.

Will__ voice dropped. __veryone makes mistakes, Jem.___es,_ said Jem. __ou just make more of them than most people.___ ____ou hurt everyone,_ said Jem. __veryone whose life you touch.___ot you,_ Will whispered. __ hurt everyone but you. I never meant tohurt you.__em put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. __ill ____ou can__ never forgive me,_ Will said in disbelief, hearing thepanic tinging his own voice. ____ be ____lone?_ Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. __ndwhose fault is that?

Because women never say what they think.

Don__ carry the weight of the world on you Jace. It__ too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.

Would you like me to magically strip you and put you in gear?_ Mr. Fell asked. __n front of everybody?___hat would be a thrill for everybody, I__ sure,_ said Matthew. Ragnor Fell wiggled his fingers, and green sparks spat from his fingertips. James was pleased to see Matthew actually take a step back. __ight be too thrilling for a Wednesday,_ Matthew said. ____l go put on my gear then, shall I?___o,_ said Ragnor.

One of us," said Malcolm, "is worth five hundred of you. I can burn you to the ground in six seconds flat and use the ashes to stuff a teddy bear for my girlfriend. Not that I have a girlfriend at the moment," he added, "but one lives to hope.

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unpleasant memories. He would much rather be amused and amusing.

He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.

As long as Simon didn__ think about the past, the past couldn__ hurt him. But, increasingly, he couldn__ help himself.There was too much pleasure in the pain.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death," - John Carstairs