“There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”
“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”
“Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.”
“Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy — just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.”
“There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.”
“Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.”