What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.<br /> "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering...

Some say the world will end in fire,<br /> Some say in ice.<br /> From what I've tasted of desire,<br /> I hold with those who favor fire. <br /> But...

“He must have known I'd want to leave you."<br /> "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the...

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”

“It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.”

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order...

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“How did it get so late so soon?”

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing <br /> and rightdoing there is a field.<br /> I'll meet you there.<br /> <br /> When the soul lies down in that...

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”

“Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”