“"Ah," said a voice from the doorway, "having your annual 'everyone thinks Will is a lunatic' meeting, are you?"”

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

“Mom. I have something to tell you. I'm undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I'm here to tell you that undead are just like you and me... well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”

“Don't. I'm not really in the mood right now.”

“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”

“Do not let those who cannot see the truth tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you have always been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.”

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”

“"What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. "It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one."”

“Can I help you with something?”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”

“You know, there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.”

“Investigation? Isabelle laughed. Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.”

“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.”

“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.”

“"Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."”

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

“I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?”

“"Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you'd get dressed up in a nurse's outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I'm back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat."”

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”

“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?”

“Well, I'm not kissing the mundane. I'd rather stay down here and rot.”

“Not everything is about you.”

“Is this the part where you say, "If I hurt her, you'll kill me?"”

“Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane."”

“"I am a man," he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman, and bring me something brown."”

“We live and breathe words. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt, I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted, and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he had learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“That does it. I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year.”

“You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?”

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”

“Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?"”

“"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.”

“And I'm supposed to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married? And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

“And now I'm looking at you, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before (bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years), but Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“There is no pretending. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?”

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?”

“"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job."”

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

“Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission.”

“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?”

“It means "Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of Our Enemies Since 1234."”

“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

“Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.”