Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.

Don’t carry the weight of the world on you Jace. It’s too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.

I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.

I think we need a big national dance.

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.