And then you'd turn to me and smile that funny smile, and I know you'd forgotten all about me and just remembered -- but I was never mad at you. Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great sadness. "I tried," she said. "I tried to love you. But it isn't easy to love a child that isn't human in the least...." "Not human?" said an unfamiliar female voice. "Well, if she isn't human, Enoch, what is she?" The voice sharpened in impatience. "What do you mean, you don't know? Everyone's something. This girl can't be nothing at all.

I would think that counted as offering resistance," Will said. "Eating one's son-in-law, that is. Though I suppose everyone has their family altercations.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.