People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.

After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.

Are you threatening to kidnap me?" "If you want to look at it that way," Jace said, "yes.

It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.

Staring at him the way she might stare at a beloved place she was not sure she would ever see again, trying to commit the details to memory, to paint them on the backs of her eyelids that she might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.

But you have to learn to bend a little," "Or you'll brake." -Clarissa Fray

To love is to destroy, to destroy is to love. -Jace Herondale