You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that. - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

"It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them."

"She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one."

"Trains are great dirty smoky things,"said Will. "You won't like it."Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?""I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it.""But think how entertaining for sightseers,"said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin."

"If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?"

"Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting."