“I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.
He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.”

“Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.”

“Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.”

“Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.”

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”

“There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.”

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.”

“Is Joe your father, Zach?'

I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to.

'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.”

“"I suppose you don't have much time for enjoying music," Clary said, thinking of Simon, for whom music was his entire life, "in your line of work."
He shrugged. "Maybe the occasional wailing chorus of the damned."”

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.”