I Am Not A Certified Idiot—" "lack

... Everything Seemed To Him A Uniform Shade Of Gray- Even The People! He Had Been Unable To Believe It Could Rain So Much In One Place, And So Unceasingly. The Damp Had Seemed To Come Up From The Floors And Into His Bones, So That He'd Thought He Would Eventually Sprout Mold, In The Manner Of A Tree. "you Do Get Used To It," He Said "even If Sometimes You Feel As If You Out To Be Able To Be Wrung Out Like A Washrag." P 311

What They Had Between Them Was Still As Fragile As Flickering Candle Flame, As Delicate As Eggshell - And He Knew That If It Shattered, If He Somehow Let It Break And Be Destroyed, Something Inside Him Would Shatter Too, Something That Could Never Be Fixed.

Do You Think She’ll Catch Him Before He Gets To The Hall?” “my Mom’s Spent Her Whole Life Chasing Me Around,” Clary Said. “she Moves Fast.

Come With Me," She Said. "stay With Me. Be With Me. See Everything With Me. I Have Traveled The World And Seen So Much, But There Is So Much More, And No One I Would Rather See It With Than You. I Would Go Everywhere And Anywhere With You, Jem Carstairs.

You Know How The Bonds Of Family Are, My Lady... They Cling As Tightly As Vines. And Sometimes, Like Vines, They Cling Tightly Enough To Kill.