“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that someh...”

“Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine."Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. "Your name?"Will took a step to...”

“Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”

“If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do t...”

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

“There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

“Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know ...”

“He dropped his voice, so low that Tessa wasnt sure if what he said next was real or part of the dream darkness rising to claim her, though shefought against it.Ive never minded it, he went on. Bein...”

“Your place is with me, Jem said. It always will be.What do you mean?He flushed, the color dark against his pale skin. I mean, he said, Tessa Gray, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?Tessa...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it.”

“There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live, Will. You burn as bright as a star.”

“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?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty littl...”