"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."
"There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it."
"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."
"Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made"
"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."
"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."