“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And...

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of...

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”

“We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”

“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."<br /> His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling...

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”

“In the end<br /> these things matter most:<br /> How well did you love?<br /> How fully did you live?<br /> How deeply did you let go?”

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”

“He stepped back and threw his arms out.<br /> "I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you."<br /> He tipped his...

“I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill...

“Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to...

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”

“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." <br /> "He's the sun god," I said.<br /> "That's not what I meant.”