One must always be careful of books,"said Tessa, "and what i... - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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

"Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?"Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all."

"Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside."

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

"Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made"