One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

My blood in his veins." ~Jace

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I'd ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?" He ran his hands through his hair, making it stick up in loops and curls that Clary ached to smooth down. "You came for me," he said. "You saved me when almost everyone else had given up, and even the people who hadn't given up didn't know what to do. You think I don't know what you went through?

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge