The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.

AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

I don't care what it looks, I don't care what it feels like, I believe God.

You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

Pot always just made me sleepy.

As for this," Magnus said sliding the stele into Jace's jeans pocket, "keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter." - 219

It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

I’m an actress, a brand, a businesswoman. I’m all kinds of stuff.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.