Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made.

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.

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.

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

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

I wouldn't change it,' Simon said. 'I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.