You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn’t a confidence booster.
You’re a public menace. You shouldn’t be allowed out on your own.
They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they’d thought was real shattered apart.
All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.
Oh, good. You’re starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That’s not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.
They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes.
So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn’t you have done that on a night I didn’t have a date? That’s most nights, in case you’re curious.
If we’re going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don’t know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don’t want them to die of excitement.
Here’s a hot tip: Most girls don’t like being stalked.
Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?
He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn’t realize was precious until you lost it.
You’d think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.
Love is a contradiction.
You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.
Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it’s you, and I realize now that I won’t be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.
Chairmen Meow deserves me every effort.
I prefer the school of life.
You don’t get it, Clary. You don’t understand what it’s like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it’s not your fault. It’s just how you were brought up-.
Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.
And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.