You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.

There is more to life than surviving.

It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.

I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.