Quotes from Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray

Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

You just like me because I'm safe. There's no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real relationship, because you can use me as an excuse.

Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

Don't be with him, don't want him, don't go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.I don't know how to be without you.

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you

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.

I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter, " said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers we get Aquatruck.

What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name

Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don't know what I'll do with you.

I thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

When did you get that?""The shirt? At Macy's. Winter sale.