Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?'I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.

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.

Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. “But he knows New York. He doesn’t know Alicante—.

The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

The love that moves the sun and all the other starsThe kind of love that can burn the world or raise it up in glory.