“There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
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“Usually I’m remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn’t end in y.”
“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.”
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.” She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. “But I don’t want anything else in the world.”
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
“And I’m suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?” His voice tightened. “And meanwhile, I’ll die a little bit more every day, watching.”
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
There is no pretending, ” Jace said with absolute clarity. ” I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I’ll love you then.