It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as... - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

"So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.''Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired."

"Well, she's not responding to my advances,"he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead.""Or she's a woman of good taste and sense."

"Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do."

"Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?"

"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."