Dreams can be dangerous things.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

Clary found herself wondering if the forsaken were edible.

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Every heart has its own melody.

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.