the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

“How are you feeling?""Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater."-Clary ”

“Not everything that's true needs to be said.”

“Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistres…”

“He slid his stele across the table toward her. "Use it." "No," Clary said, and …”