"It is not in my nature to turn away. Not I- I look my nightmares in the eye. And if my nightmares should look back, they see nothing but shadow. I am not there."

"'I call that creativity,' Orville said. 'The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.'"

"Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they're only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost."

Cassandra Clare gave us TMI fans everything we could ever ask for in her latest Shadowhunter book, including forbidden romance and an awesome fighting scene. Can't the next Dark Artifices book be out already??

The cover of "The Nest" is so gorgeous! I can't wait to read it once finals are over.

"Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between."

Currently reading...stay tuned for a review!

"She had never entirely let go of the notion that if she reached far enough with her thoughts she might find someone waiting, that if two people were to cast their thoughts outward at the same moment they might somehow meet in the middle."

"She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”