Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the light to burn away.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.

I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.

Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

I love to sing, dance, and act so I guess I am one! Although I definitely think that I have tons to work on and I hope to grow as a performer everyday.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it!