“To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.”

“I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim notion of what itwill be. I want it to have not a graceful curve slightly bent toward evening but a hitherto unseen bea...”

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”

“Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.”

“Betrayal is beautiful.”

“By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”

“Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but t...”

“Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.”

“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. People are a...”