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“And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.”
“Normally I give permission to take my daughter for a walk after only the building of a wall and a stone pathway.' He smiled. 'For future reference.''But, Pan, I knew after the first week that a wal...”
“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”
“History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.”
“One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.”
“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, its not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and...”
“Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and...”
“Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine."Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. "Your name?"Will took a step to...”
“Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart”
“Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. ...”
“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
“If you're a bird... I'm a bird...”
“I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.”
“The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other...”
“Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”
“Whatever begins will end, in time.”
“If my love were an ocean,there would be no more land.If my love were a desert,you would see only sand.If my love were a star-late at night, only light.And if my love could grow wings,I'd be soaring...”
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”
