Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray
If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.
Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.
Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.
As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
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
Itβs fascinating. You know all these words, and theyβre all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just donβt make any sense.
I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.
Arenβt they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?β βYes,β he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him,β and Iβm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, youβll wind up making out with him, too.β β Donβt be sexist. They could find me a female instructor.β βIn that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.
Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.
You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.' 'No I mean it. You don't look good.' 'This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.
Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.