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

But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.

Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely reminded of being four years old at the beach, crying when the wind came up and blew away the castle she had made. Her mother had told her she could make another one if she liked, but it hadn't stopped her crying because what she had thought was permanent was not permanent after all, but only made out of sand that vanished at the touch of wind and water.