I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of "standing."' It's leaning,' Jace told him. 'Leaning comes right before standing.

You can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.

I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.

Wherever we are, we are as one

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

nothing ventured, nothing gained.