Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are the flame.

And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

All knowledge hurts.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

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