Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.

Oh dear," said Jace..."I hope that wasn't anything important." "It was a sleeping potion," she said angrily, toeing the vial with the tip of a sneaker. "And now it's gone." "If only Simon were here. He could bore you to sleep.

Raphael snapped, "This isn't funny." "That's why no one's laughing." -Raphael & Jace, pg.272-

When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?