Cassandra Clare

"...Wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness."

"She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves."

"Jace looked as if she had slapped him. 'Why are you determined not to believe us?'Because she loves you,' said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face."

"Not everything is about you,' Clary said furiously.'Possibly,' Jace said, 'but you do have to admit that the majority of things are."

"There is no pretending,' Jace said with absolute clarity. 'I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."

"Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?"

"I should have guessed you were Jace's sister,' he said. 'You both have the same artistic talent.'Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. 'Jace can draw?'Nah.' When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. 'I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line."

"They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning."

"You're not gay, are you?'Simon's greenish color deepened. 'If I were, I would dress better."

"The Smile won Matthew extra time before bed, extra Christmas pudding, extra anything he wanted. Adults were helpless to resist The Smile.Matthew gave his all to this particular smile. Butter melted. Birds sang. People slipped about dazed amid the butter and birdsong."

"Will stared down at his hands. 'My whole life wrecked, destroyed...' 'You're seventeen,' Magnus said. 'You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived."

"Honestly I don't know why I have these parties'Because of your cat'That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort."