Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift." Gross," said Clary. "Must you?" Simon grinned. "I must.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.

I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

If you really need to, you have to make it happen.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

I think the stress of having to continue to fight the fight day in and day out, whatever it is, that which keeps you driving. You can get to a place where you no longer want to do that.