Famous Quotes

"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men."

"Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.""Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred.""A god named Fred?"

"I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.""Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing."

"A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?"

"I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me.""It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably."

"Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.""I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically.""None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow."How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun."Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong."

"Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."

"Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys."

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"

"It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace."

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"

"It is forbidden to kill"

"In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day."

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."

"Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die."

"I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?"

"Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?""I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random."

"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."

"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."

"Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people."

"From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."