Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..." "You're seventeen, " Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

Leave footprints of love and kindness on the seashore of humanity.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

Believe while others are doubting.