He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.

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.

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

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.

Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her, " said Jeffrey.

The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.