We are but dust and shadows.

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.' Dante was trying to explain faith, I thnk, as an overpowering love, and maybe it's blasphemous, but that's how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to- that I loved you, and you loved me.

There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.