Best quotes about life

"Isabelle drifted over, Jace a pace behind her. She was wearing a long black dress with boots and an even longer cutaway coat of soft green velvet, the color of moss. 'I can't believe you did it!' she exclaimed. 'How did you get Magnus to let Jace leave?' 'Traded him for Alec,' Clary said. Isabelle looked mildly alarmed. 'Not permanently?' 'No,' said Jace. 'Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back,' he added thoughtfully. 'In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy.' Isabelle looked dubious. 'Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out.' 'That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?' Simon inquired. 'No, probably not.'"

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distractionand ultimately, without a major resolution."

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."

"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

"Your friend's poetry is terrible, he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. What? I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random."

"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

"That'€™s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."

"The world was hers for the reading."

"Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do."