“Investigation?” Isabelle laughed. “Now we’re detectives? Maybe we should all have code names.””Good idea,” said Jace. “I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

“Don’t talk to me.””Why not?””Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret…”

“Love conquers all,” Aphrodite promised. “Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?””Didn’t they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?””Pfft. That’s not the point. Follow your heart.”

“Why are they all staring?” demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.”Don’t let it worry you,” said Ron. “It’s me. I’m extremely famous.”

“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.””I was ninety percent sure.””I see,” Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.”What the hell was that for?””The other ten percent.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“Deadlines just aren’t real to me until I’m staring one in the face.”

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“You haven’t got a letter on yours,” George observed. “I suppose she thinks you don’t forget your name. But we’re not stupid-we know we’re called Gred and Forge.”