There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.

Clary found herself wondering if the forsaken were edible

She had her back to them and was talking to Luke and Jocelyn, laughing, flinging her curly hair back. "Don't even think about it."

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.

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."

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then.

And he understands. He understands why people hold hands: he'd always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it's about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don't go.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.