It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. YOU are the flame. That's what I believe.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.

And Nephilim—we tend to love very overwhelmingly. To fall in love only once, to die of grief over love—my old tutor used to say that the hearts of the Nephilim were like hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed.

You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.

Don’t carry the weight of the world on you Jace. It’s too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

You are a great deal of trouble, Jace herondale. “So I’ve been told” jace said

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.