“If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.”

“It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.”

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

“But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.”

“I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.”

“Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal”

“How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.”