I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.
Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.
Maybe Alexander Lightwood would not break his heart.
Words have the power to change us.
Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.
Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.
Don’t sulk. For someone with all the grace and coordination of a pregnant wildebeest, you did great.
He’d felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.
At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can’t tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.
Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.
You’re so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can’t find anything. He’s compulsive.
Tact is just lying for adults.
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.
When Jace opened the greenhouse door, the scent hit Clary, soft as the padded blow of a cat’s paw...
I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it’s more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored.
Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.
The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.