Love is a contradiction.

You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now." Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.

There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.

Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.” “So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon.

I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in - God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower of other needles." "Plunge your hand in a tower of needles," said Magnus, "and you are likely to cut yourself badly. Are you sure this is what you want?