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

"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."

"Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there."

"Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck."

"There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it."

"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."