Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.

What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.