All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

I am, in the end, what you made me.

In difficult times, in dark times, some people shine.

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.

There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite