"I close my eyes and I feel it. I feel the sun on my face and the music and the voices all around me and I relish in the fact that I am here. I am living. I am alive."

"In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did."

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

"And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me."

"‘Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?’
‘If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.’"

"There is something beautiful about the infinity of summer: the things that had been, the things that are, and the possibilities that will be."

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."

"Words always look more important when surrounded by quotes."

"I put my finger to her lips. “You have to hush a minute so that I can tell you something.”
“What?” she says, bites my finger.
I look at her. “I love you.”
She gets quiet, the kind of quiet that sinks into her, softens her. “Well that works out,” she finally says, her voice deeper and breathless, her eyes moist, “because I love you too."

"What would it be like to sleep next to someone, to feel their every breath like a soft whisper, to hear their every heartbeat as your own, and know that there is nowhere else you’d rather be?"

"I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light."

"I used to think I knew who I was. Then I met you and who I was became exactly that—who I used to be. I became someone new. Then you were gone and I learned that no, that wasn’t me at all. Now I wonder if this is me, or that was me, or if I maybe lost myself somewhere along the way. And I’ve figured out that who I was wasn’t a lie; neither was who I became. They were all small pieces of the bigger truth."

"Still here.
Always here.
Even if you don’t know it.
Even if you don’t believe it."

"Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself."

"There is something magical about nighttime, isn’t there? When the line between reality and dreams becomes blurred and suddenly everything you yearn for during the day becomes possible."