Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home.

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.

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.

The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover.

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Human beings are fundamentally good.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.