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You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time."" I've been thinking about you, too."" I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know."" I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.Cassandra Clare

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When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary FrayCassandra Clare

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Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..Cassandra Clare

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Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary FrayCassandra Clare

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Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)Cassandra Clare

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Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.Cassandra Clare

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I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.Cassandra Clare
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I don't want to be a man, " said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."" Well, " said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.Cassandra Clare
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Well, I’m not kissing the mundane, " said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."" Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it, " he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?Cassandra Clare

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That does it, " said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."" Why?" Isabelle said." So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.Cassandra Clare
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Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.Cassandra Clare
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Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. "I can't believe you did it! " she exclaimed. "How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?"" Traded him for Alec, " Clary said. Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. "Not permanently?"" No, " said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back, " he added thoughtfully. "In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy." Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."" That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.Cassandra Clare

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I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?Cassandra Clare

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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.Cassandra Clare

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Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.Cassandra Clare

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We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now."" I was going to watch Project Runway.Cassandra Clare

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There's no need to clarify my finger snap, " said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.Cassandra Clare
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As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?Cassandra Clare

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I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.Cassandra Clare

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Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression." Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.Cassandra Clare