I glared at Christian as the blood smeared around. “You could have at least licked it.”He smirked darkly. “I hear that all too often.

Nothing is forever. Except atoms.

I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and OMG mixed in.

Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.

If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.

She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.

Some look at your strength and see an opportunity and some look at your weaknesses and see an opportunity .

Heroes save worlds, " Clary said. "They don't destroy them.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.