"the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin.On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?"Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "If you'd been a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful.""Yes," said Jace. "Or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats."

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."

"Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine."

"Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought.On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed.Cool."

"Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it."

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon."

"Oh, look at that, he's heard of me. My fame grows."

"Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic."

"As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation."

"Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while"

"Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self."

"Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"A well-read woman is a dangerous creature."

"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."

"You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies."

"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."

"One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle & skinning your knee is less troublesome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, & that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent."

"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse."

"Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise."

"You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken."