“What did my arms do before they held you?”

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

“Only bad books have good endings.<br /> If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

“The world is quiet here.”

“If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.”

“Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.”

“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A...

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”

“I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent."<br /> Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was...

You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.”

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because...

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”

“Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes...