“She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry.”

“The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.”

“But what would I know? I’m just a racist. A racist with an immigrant mom. But she came here legally. So I guess she’s racist too.”

“Jeremy: I wanted to find out what this show has taught you about music and performing
Hayley: This show has taught me so much, working with John and Erina and these wonderful musicians has taught me so much.
She goes on to say that she’s learnt how to come up with arrangements quickly and how to perform and how important it is to stay true to yourself.”

“If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.”

“You snuck up on me,” she said. “I guess I’m not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?”
Simon shrugged. “Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.”

“And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.”

“And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.”

“Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.”

“Maybe I should drive,” Troy said. “She knows what she’s doing,” Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. “What?” “The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.”